After excavation, comes the footings.
With the cold weather we had to use concrete blankets to keep the ground from freezing. These blankets show up a lot in this post.
All bundled up for the night. You can see the outline well.
It snowed! Good thing we covered the forms. We had to shovel off the blankets before we could proceed.
Working around the old house meant we needed a concrete pump truck to reach all the footings.
The cement trucks pump into the hopper on the pump truck and then it gets sent up and over and into the footings.
The pump truck boom is maneuvered by remote control (that's what he is holding).
In order to get concrete in the forms under the house they had to make a chute. I'm pretty sure I heard the concrete contractor cursing me out under his breath at this point.
The two older kids and the woman-in-charge came to see the progress. Concrete pumping is an exciting day!
All bundled up again. Almost ready for wall forms.
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