Day 20 of our dream home build – Foundation walls poured!

Since our last post, we’ve seen so much progress!! I think I’ll say that during every update because our builder and his crews are moving SO fast!

Let’s see. We’ve had the concrete footers for the foundation poured and a gravel delivery.

Last Monday we got a bit of heavy rain, so no action that day. Tuesday they started on the wall forms. To anyone who may not know, they basically line up all these pieces to make a mold for the walls to be poured. They worked on this into Wednesday as well. Wednesday we got our foundation walls poured! They brought in 2-3 concrete mixers to get the job done! This was so fun to watch.

Thursday they removed the wall forms and now it looks SO REAL!

I watched a waterproofing truck drive up, but unfortunately didn’t observe his piece of the process before he drove away. Our builder stopped by on Friday with the black tubing or “tiling” as Brandon said. I’m guessing this drains away water? I’m not sure, I just look out the window!

We’re at the point now where it’s starting to look like the footprint of a house. We assume next we’ll have our concrete garage and foundation floor poured, followed by framing? The builder already has all of our walls framed and ready to install once we get to that point.

This Wednesday we’re meeting with the kitchen/bath designer. It was supposed to be last Friday, but there was a conflict, and this thankfully gives us more time to get all of our ideas gathered! We’ll need to go to the meeting with our appliance list, ideas on plumbing fixtures, kitchen sink, etc! We have a good idea already on cabinets, but this is where I’ll look to Rose from R Kitchen and Bath to help us make final decisions. I’m hoping Thursday/Friday I can write up a blogpost with all of our decisions we made! This is one of the parts of the build that I’m most excited about, and it felt like this day would never come!

I hope you liked the update! I was ready to write this post early last week, but with a baby it kept getting pushed back and then there was more and more progress to report on! Not a bad problem to have though!

Thanks for reading!

Davien