The Foundation has been poured!

There have been so many changes in when and what inspections and surveys that have to be done when you are adding on to a house. The foundation prep work has to be inspected before the foundation can be poured so Kelly from the bank came out of Friday to take pictures. Then bright and early Monday morning (7:00 am) the concrete trucks came in to start pouring. I think it took 3 trucks to fill it all in. They got it done extremely fast. We did have one "uh oh" - one of the trucks was backing up when the front tire sunk into a hole. Apparently the driver found an old septic tank that we didn't know was in the yard. :) But other than that the pouring went smoothly. Once they would pour the concrete they would start smoothing it out with trowels and when they had finished pouring it all they used a really long trowel. Then they let it set enough that you could stand on it and then they used these power tools to smooth it all out. After they finished smoothing it out they had to keep it moist so that it would cure properly. Rodney had to run the sprinkler on it for a little while in the evening as well. By the morning it was completely set! It looks great! They took off the forms and smoothed out the dirt around the foundation. This coming Monday the framing crew will come out and start framing the walls! Our job this weekend is to move the satellite dish so it doesn't get in there way.