Footings

Friday was a big day for us, and was a GC's dream day!

The excavator blew a hose just prior to the end of the day so was not able to finish removing all the dirt on Thursday.  He ran to the store right before it closed to get the piece to fix the excavator.  He started at 7am Friday morning to get the last of the dirt out before the surveyors showed up at 8:30am.  The surveyors started at the back of the hole mapping out where the basement foundation was while the excavator was still taking out dirt at the front!

Then pretty much as the excavator was being loaded onto a trailer and the surveyors were finishing the cribbers showed up to start!  It took the cribbers about 4 hours to lay the footings and they were not even finished and the concrete truck showed up!  They tied the last of the rebar while the concrete was being poured.  They had to bring in a special smaller pump as the power lines near the road where a bit to close for comfort.  You can see the front wheel of the pump truck hanging over the hole!

This was a very productive day!  And we couldn't have scheduled it better if we tried, hopefully this is a sign of things to come :)

Marking where the footings will go

The hole is done!

Ready to go! The concrete guys pulled in as the excavator left

Putting the pump in place, you can see the cribber finishing up to the left

The concrete guys were very quick

Footings complete!