Popped up to the site quickly today during lunch to check on progress. The guys have been busy and have dug out all the footing trenches on the lower level and today started placing the footing steel into place.
Here are some of the trenches at the front edge of the basement floor.
They had to do some serious cutting of a large graywacke boulder in one of the trenches. It may even be bedrock?
And here's the footing steel in place. The trench is filled with concrete, then the steel is bent inwards to join with the floor slab steel - making sure the floor is well and truly fixed to the footings.
Just after I took these pics, the heavy rain started. I bet it's not so pristine looking now!
Just after I took these pics, the heavy rain started. I bet it's not so pristine looking now!
Very exciting! So jealous of those views :)
ReplyDeleteYep - guess you hear it all the time as an architect - but it's just so cool to see something actually happening after all the planning :-)
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