Sunday, October 12, 2014

Basement walls at full height and poured

This visit on a crisp fall day brought some nice surprises.  Driving up to the house, we could already see that the next floors rebar spikes were set into the tops of the basement walls, so that meant that the walls have been poured.
Here's a shot of the front of the house and garage wall.  The rebar spikes are pretty evident.  Those will be the tie in for the first floor walls.  Notice the double layer visqueen sheeting?  Apparently that's code for waterproofing.  The top is attached to the wall with a piece of wood and sprayfoamed water tight.  The sheeting drapes down the wall without mechanical fastening and is "secured" at the bottom with pea gravel, up against the drain footing.  It's not what I would have wanted, but considering we're in sand, and all of the below grade walls will at least have an 8 foot porch covering it, I guess it's okay.  I really hope I'm not kicking myself in the ass for this decision.
 Here's a beam pocket.  A standard steel I-beam will be set in place to support the first floor.
 Window cavity filled.  I'm not sure if the window will sit right on this or if another piece of wood will space it.
 Footings for support posts bridging the basement stairs.  The background has the only two other post footings in the house.  All posts will be hidden in walls.  The ICF wall supports will remain until the concrete cures.
 Here's how the misplaced wall was fixed.  Shouldn't be a problem at all.
 Here's some excavation for the gazebo and rear porch.  On the blueprints, the rear porch is supported by footings, posts, and an engineered header.  The framer and builder decided that it would be better to pour a trench footing and use ICF for the entire back porch and gazebo.  This will give us the opportunity to have some outdoor uncondition storage space under it.  I'm even thinking that the area under the gazebo could house the pool pump/filter/heater in the future since the back deck will be concrete.
 Two footings for the garage walls.
 Looks like the end of the garage wall will also have a deeper footing due to the change in elevation.

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