Before foundation can be finished, there is electrical being added in a few locations where it will need to come up in the floor. In the living room we have three outlets in the floor and in the kitchen there will be power in the island for both the dishwasher and outlets on the sides of the island.
This week the electrician has been cutting out existing concrete to make enough room to get electricity for all those locations. He hasn’t actually installed any cables, but has installed conduit and outlet boxes that will all be in the concrete that’s poured (placed) soon. The conduits just have pull ropes in them to facilitate pulling electrical cables through them.
All of that was inspected by the city today and is good to go.
The pipes sticking up are where the kitchen island will be. The red & white tubing is Pex water lines for the island. The two large PVC pipes are for drain and drain-vents. The small grey pipe (conduit) is for electrical.
The three yellow caps are covers over the in-floor electrical receptacles in the living room. The part with the yellow cap on it will be moved up or down as appropriate once they start refilling the gaps with concrete (and this floor is slightly too low and will be floated higher to match other parts of the house. The other ends of the conduits end up in walls.
On Monday, the foundation folks will start installing the rest of the structural components (rebar) of the foundation. That should take a good chunk of next week and the current plan is for an inspection on that as soon as next Friday. Once the inspection happens, they’ll do the concrete work as quickly as possible (perhaps as soon as Saturday, but more likely the following Monday). Right now the weather forecast is looking pretty good for next week so hopefully this “best case” plan works out. We’re really excited to get the foundation done as things can really start moving much quicker once that’s in place.