Preparation to pour the concrete for the grade beams/footings for the lower half of the foundation.
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The lowest and most massive footing for the house. The soils engineer, Bob Settgast, is inspecting the tubes/sleeves through which the tiebacks will be drilled and secured. The tubes essentially leave an 8" hole through the wall once the concrete is poured. This will be a 2' thick wall of solid concrete except for the four holes left by the 8" tubes. (These are 6" tubes and the engineer decided we needed 8" access holes for drilling.)
Two of the four tieback insertion points on the lower wall.
Marshall, our construction foreman and great guy, on the left, waits for Settgast to decide if the 6" tubes are large enough for the tieback drilling. Marshall couldn't finish framing the lower footing until Settgast made up his mind. I'm in the shade under one of our Bay trees.
The middle of the three cross-slope footings.
Looking down into a corner over one of the piers. The steel coming out of the piers gets tied to the steel in the grade beams and footings before the concrete is poured. (And I am going to get my hand out of there before they pour.)
They had to build retaining walls like the one in the lower third of the picture, just to keep the soil out of their way while they formed and poured.
The footing framing on the west side of the lot.
The view from under the deck. The pier at the bottom is one of the two deck supports.
The deck supports.
The view from the street.
This is a cross-slope view of almost all of the living area. The wall on the right will be the uphill side of the house. You're looking at our kitchen window. You can see a snippet of the lower wall. The house is only 22' between the upslope and downslope walls.
This storage space under the house will be the ping pong room. Everyone is invited.
Chief inspector.
The anchor bolts by which the house is attached to the foundation are suspended over and into the footings. They will be embedded into the concrete.
The form for the lowest wall is ready for pouring.
Details of the big wall.
More details over a pier.
Framing the footings was tedious. They had to build a few walls like the one in the middle here, just to keep the dirt out of the way. That's a lot of dirt to move around. It will have to be moved again. How's your back?
The lower portion is ready to pour. The ping pong corner is getting started for the second pouring in about a week.
The lot as of 9/11/05. Happy birthday John and Rhonda.
