Basement walls

Today DH and MD shored up the basement walls in preparation for rebar and concrete to be poured into them to help stabilize them. Then, they started tearing off the floor deck. The plan is to finish tearing off the floor deck on Friday. Block guy for the crawlspace foundation will be here sometime next week!

 See! Part of the floor deck has been taken off. DH is going to try to salvage the hardwood flooring to use in a different project later on.

 Yeah. The block was really really loose. Good thing this wall is going to be removed.

See how they braced the wall in preparation for the rebar and concrete! And yes, this is standing on the concrete pad, looking through the wall into the basement.

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!