Small changes

Mid October rolled around and we got another chance to take a trip to the job site.  The basement walls were probably still hardening on the inside, which is fine because my builder told me that he's having trouble procuring the steel for the floor joists.  Since we're going to have concrete floors throughout the house, Wood joists are replaced with steel floor trusses, over which a corrugated sheet metal is placed.  The concrete is then poured over this and leveled.  He said that orders for the steel is months out, so he secured a distributor for an ICF floor system.  I'll provide more detail about that later.  On to the pictures.

 Here's the foundation wall for the end of the garage.  There are some marks on the back of the wall which denotes where the final grade is expected to be.  It seems like the top of this wall will be just about where the garage floor will be.  There will be a window in that alcove so even the garage will have a great view.

 All this needs to be backfilled then under the garage slab will have the normal gravel/rock.  This will be the single car door section of the garage, so it's not as deep as the two car section.  This section will also have a single space garage door on the back of the house so we can get large items to the back yard since there's so little room on the sides.

 Here's another shot of the gazebo.  It's hard to tell by the picture, but it's 20' across.  I'm hoping there will be enough room for a few seats around the fire and an 8 person table.

 Forms for the footings are removed and some of the wall supports are taken away.  I think the basement floor will be just above, or at, the footing level.  Counting the ICF block levels confirms that it will be 10ft to the ceiling.

Just another shot of the basement and elevator shaft.