We have gotten a bit done in the last little while:
1.We have the water line and the electrical run to the house.
2.We have laid and covered the weeping tile with gravel. For anyone who doesn't know, Weeping tile is a corrugated, perforated plastic tube that runs around the perimeter of your basement. It is designed to gather any water that is in the soil around your house (from rain, etc) and take it into the sump pit (the sump pump will later pump the water out) so that the excess water doesn't just run into your basement.
2.We have attached the peel and stick water proofing to the outside of the foundation. Waterproofing is a thick plastic membrane that is plastic on the front and the back is sticky. You apply to the outside of your foundation so that any water will just run down the outside of your foundation and into the weeping tile. ( I am sure there is a more technical explanation but that's the best that I can do.)
3. The sump pit hole has been dug and the sump pit hooked up to the weeping tile.
4. The main floor trusses are all up.
5. The main floor subfloor is on.
6. Almost all of the main floor exterior walls are up. I should have some wall pictures to post in a couple of days!
7. We have resolved our foundation wall issues from my last post and should be receiving our new panels today.
Next week we are planning on having our foundation inspection and backfilling. Hopefully we should be able to see a lot of progress then. There are so many things that we just can't do until we backfill.
I don't have pictures of a lot of the stuff we have done recently (pictures of electrical wires, or gravel piles really aren't all that exciting) but here is one of the first couple of trusses we put up:
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| There really isn't an opening in our basement like this picture shows, we just left a panel out so that we could get in easier. It's all closed up now though! |
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