We've got concrete!

Woo hoo. The concrete company came at 8 o'clock this morning. By 8:45am, when I showed up, they had half of the pad poured and were smoothing it out. By 11 o'clock, they were gone. They were fast and amazing. Now, we'll let it dry for a few days before we move on to the next step. That will be either laying the block for the walls for the crawlspace -or- removing the floor deck to shore up the basement walls. One of the other will happen in a few days.

 The cement truck

 Half of it poured and being smoothed.

All done!

Framework

Well, it took longer than we thought to do, but the frame for the concrete slab is finally done. Levelling the pad for concrete had to be hand-dug. So it took many more hours than we thought. Then, on Sunday, we had torrential rains that held up progress. Today, DH finished the final things to get the dirt slab ready for tomorrow's concrete pour!

Excavation Day Two

Today's pictures aren't as impressive as yesterday's, however we did get a lot of work done. We put in the drainage pipe and excavated the whole new addition area. Oh, we also broke my Dad's dump truck. Tomorrow we'll be putting the framework in for the concrete slab of the crawlspace. The slab will be poured on Tuesday. The foundation will also be shored up on Tuesday.  So, Sunday and Monday will be rest days. Yay. Days of rest!

 MD and DH putting in the drainage pipe.

 DH standing in the hole that will be the crawlspace for the new addition.

 Here's what the 'house' looks like now. That's 8 feet of the basement wall you can see here.

 And here is the mound of dirt lining the property. Why? Remember how I said the dump truck broke? Yeah. That's why. We can't remove the dirt from the property because of the dump truck being broke.

This is no little pile of dirt either. LMS is 4'6" tall and it's as tall as she is. It extends the full length of the property too. Insane. 

Excavation Day 1

Yes, I said Day One. You'll see why later. Anyway, today started off amazing. I was truly astonished at how fast things went today. In fact, the pictures will do all the story.

 How the house looked when we began the day. It didn't stay like this for long.

 The excavator!

 There goes part of the rest of the house!

 Boom!

 And there goes the rest!

 Smash. No more house.

 DH working down in the trench next to the basement. It's deep. We have some foundation work we need to do, which is why we're digging around the foundation.

And this is why there is a Day One. The track came off the excavator. 15 mins AFTER the place closed for the day. Isn't that how it always goes? The plan now is to finish excavation tomorrow, after the people come and fix the track. Then, we're off and running on construction!