Window Wells

Not much at the jobsite today.  The concrete company had extra decorative window wells leftover from another project that we are going to use for ours.  They look much nicer than the traditional silver metal ones, and have steps built in but we are getting them at a sizable discount.  The steps are mostly just needed for the egress window, but we are going to try and figure out something clever with plants and/or planters for the kitchen sink one.

The concrete floor and steps that were poured yesterday look to be unaffected by the cold weather last night.

They got one of the window wells into place and partially backfilled.  The other one will go into place when they return to do the final backfill.

Unfortunately, we found out today that the framer cannot do any work for a week and a half, so the concrete company has to wait at least that long before they can return to do the final backfill.

So, for the next 1.5 weeks there won't be much of anything going on at the site.  Oh well...

It's hard to tell, but the window well will sit about 4-6 inches above final finished grade once everything is all said and done.

The top is a plexiglass cover with metal bars and a metal frame.

The bottom of the window well is mostly gravel.  We will add a bit more.

This is the view from the kitchen sink location looking outside.

Reno week 2

Relatively uneventful day progress wise today.  Interior demo is nearly complete, excavation has just about 2 hours of work left.  They have started building the formwork for the footers...hoping to have footers poured on Wednesday, inspection and weather permitting.
Two large deliveries today: Type II EPS foam insulation board (foundation walls, basement slab perimeter) (pictured) and the Henry Blueskin foundation waterproofing membrane.