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Footings and Foundation Walls

Once the footings were poured and dried for a day it came time to put the rebar in and to frame the foundation walls. The below series shows the sequence of construction on 5 April 2020.

Pictured about 6:00am. The rebar is wired in place and all of the temporary wall panels are laid out ready to put up. Note my shadow.
4 hours later most of the panels are up and braced.
The cement pumping truck has arrived.
First of 3 cement trucks has arrived and beginning of pour.
Moving around perimeter. Wade, the owner, is in yellow doing the pour. The two men following are managing the agitator to release bubbles and the final man is smoothing the top of the wall.
Two days later with the portable side walls back on the truck. The top of the footing wall will be close to the ground level when the dirt is filled back in around the outside.

In other good news, I have been off the wired grid for about 36 hours. Now the weather has been optimum, clear and mostly cloudless during the day, but I discovered the secret is to shut down the trailer breaker after sunset to go on the trailer batteries. After the sun comes back up, about 8:30-9:00AM, I can power the trailer back up and use PV cells to recharge the main batteries and trailer battery. I may need another 48V main battery to get through prolonged cloudy weather/winter gloom, but things are looking hopeful.

2 replies on “Footings and Foundation Walls”

Is that accessible “basement” space for the house? Although more like crawlspace probably. Looking good!

Yea, that’s what I was thinking. If you dig down a bit, you’d at least have a root cellar for storage (in case of the zombie apocalypse).

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