As I posted yesterday, we were expecting the footers to be poured either tomorrow (Friday) or Monday. However, Wayne hedged his bets and ordered the concrete for today… and ended up getting everything ready and inspected in time for the delivery. So our footers were poured today instead of first thing next week!
They poured for the master bedroom wing, the garage wing, and the computer room in the back of the house. The weather held out with nothing but a light sprinkle of rain at one point that didn’t affect their work at all, so it was the perfect day to do it.
Not only did they get everything poured today, but they had everything so precisely ordered that they ended up with only half a yard of concrete left over. Evidently that made one of the guys kind of nervous ("That’s cutting it too close.") but it worked out perfectly.
They also spent time removing the bricks from the end of the house next to the garage wing. We discovered that, back in 1977 when this house was built, it seems they didn’t know about house wrap or moisture barriers or that type of thing because the plywood underneath the brick was really badly decayed. Of course, it’s been 38 years, so I guess that’s not all that bad for having no moisture barrier. I imagine that will be the case for the rest of the house, too. Fortunately, it’s all coming off, so that issue will be resolved by the time we’re done.
More pictures… (click to embiggen)
