This week has all been about wrapping up preparation for the foundation of the addition on the house. The team did a lot of digging and brought in fill. On Wednesday, a pest company did a termite treatment of the soil under the new foundation (they’ll also treat all the studs down low where they come into contact with foundation after the framing is done). Rest of the week was guys putting in a bunch of rebar to form the structure of the foundation and also drilling into the old foundation to epoxy rebar into it to tie the old and new foundations together.
Monday is a holiday so the city inspection of all that will happen Tuesday and then on Wednesday there should be a stream of concrete trucks pouring (placing) the concrete and by Wednesday evening we should have a full foundation! After a couple of days (We’re guessing the following week), crews should start framing and we’re hopeful that at that point, things will start to move quite quickly.
From the back corner of the lot. The grassy area to the left of the pile of bricks is where our small yard will be.
Each of the orange dots is where they’ve drilled into old foundation to do the tie-in with new foundation. The door in the middle will be the door from the garage into the utility room (which will extend to the left past the garbage bins).
This corner will be the primary bath (which ends up needing to be slightly higher since it won’t have hardwood floors). There ends up being several different elevations here. the shower (the rectangle in the middle with the single pipe sticking out of it) will start out lower than the rest of the floor so that they can finish it out as a curb-less shower.
They’ve also had to put rebar back into the places in the original foundation where they had to dig out for new plumbing.