Milestone Reached - Foundations Complete
For most houses on crawl spaces or slabs on grade, this wouldn't be that big of a milestone. For our house, this is a MAJOR milestone, as the house has raised concrete slabs over crawlspaces, not at all typical for residential construction around here. The entire foundation process consisted of 3 individual concrete pours, all of which required a pump. The final pour, included in this update, was the concrete for what are our finished interior floors on the main level, and the porches. The surface treatment of the concrete was important, as was the ultimate level of flatness, since it will all be visible. I took a chance on not cutting control joints, and we did get some minor cracking, but it is all manageable and will likely not even be noticed once the house is finished. We also received the first shipment of steel components, which were fabricated locally in Hollywood and are based on the detailed drawings we provided to the fabricator. T...