The pour

Today was the big day, the pour. Art Gonzalez from A&S construction and his crew smoothed out the concrete for us. It went well. We will cover it up for the weekend and pull the forms on Monday.

The heat is on

We got our foundation inspection today. Now we are laying tubing for radiant heat. We laid it a 6" on center. That is a lot of tubing but it will operate at a lower temperature and provide a lot of storage do we can use solar hot water panels to heat the house. We have scheduled our pour for next Wednesday.

rigid foam

On Friday we started putting rigid foam insulation on the ground to insulate the slab. Today there was an inch of snow on the worksite when we arrived. Is this going to be a long, cold Winter?

Plumbing inspection

Plumbing is all stubbed out and we filled in the trenches. We passed our rough plumbing inspection. Note the picture on the right, we got snow on the mountaintops last night. Time to get this place closed in.

it flows downhill

Plumbing is stubbed out here. This is the view from the master bath looking North where the main line flows from the bedroom through the courtyard and catches the guest bathroom. The line on the right takes the greywater to the courtyard.

Rubble

Today we filled the trenches with stone creating a rubble trench. Tomorrow we will bring in 4 inches of crusher fines to build up the foundation.

We do curves

At left is our floor plan. Note the curved breakfast nook. Here it is formed up.

rigid foam

Ivy had jury duty this week so we lost some time. Here we hung rigid foam insulation to the forms. We should finish that by lunch on Monday.