Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Basement slab pour day

Today was the last concrete pour day.  They did the basement floor and the exterior basement steps/landings.

Lots of steam coming off the concrete once it was poured and the sun started to come out.  Interesting phenomenon!

The heater was kept running all afternoon once the pour was completed, but due to fire safety concerns the best we can do overnight is to wrap the entire foundation and hope for the best.  The contractor ensures that all will be OK and I've decided to just let this one go and hope for the best.  It's only a slab, after all.

These are shown in reverse chronological order.  The top photo was the last one I took, around 5:15 just before I left.  They had everything tarped over, heater going, and were just working on finishing the surface.  We had the light setup as it was completely dark inside at that point.





Almost perfect placement of the first step light:
















 1st layer of housewrap.  Usually only one layer is needed but in this case the contractor wanted to get something in place to protect the OSB that was put up almost 2 weeks ago.  We are planning on using a drainwrap product later on that is way better than the standard home wrap shown.  Note the use of cap nails however.  This is the RIGHT way to install homewrap.  Lots of contractors will install with tack staplers but this is not the correct way.

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