For those of you who don't know, footings are essentially the support system of your house. They help transfer the load of the walls and structure of your house above into the soil below. In our case they are a concrete 'track' that run around the perimeter of our house. The walls of your house sit on the footings and obviously your roof sits on the walls. So basically if you screw up your footing, you screw up your house. In order to construct your footings you first have to build forms out of wood and then fill the forms with concrete and then remove the forms. You should then have a nice, level and square base to construct your house on. After reading/writing that I am not entirely sure why the husband and I decided to attempt these ourselves, but we did. And let me tell you, it wasn't fun. Ok, maybe for about the first 30 seconds.
In my opinion footings are the most frustrating and finicky part of the construction process. You have to get them just right or it will affect the rest of your house. This was one situation where it is a good thing that the husband is such a perfectionist. There were so many times through out the past few days where I was ready to just throw in the towel and say "who cares if the footings aren't square!" (That would have been really bad, by the way) but the husband, no matter how frustrated we got and how many hammers were thrown, stuck to his guns to make these footings, our house, the best that he possibly could.
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| Outside of the footing is complete! |
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