Suspended Concrete Floor Forms Are Up!!!!

We went to the site today and things are really starting to look good. The crew was able to get the suspended concrete floor forms up yesterday, and it's really starting to look like our house now. You can see the forms from the top view in this picture I took standing on top of a dirt pile. They will come in and pour concrete over the forms early next week. You can see the supports at the top of the ICF walls to hold it so that it doesn't bow out when the concrete is poured.

Then you can see the view from under the floor forms. This is basically exactly what our basement interior will look like - except that all of the supports you see will be removed once the concrete cures. The basement will be one open space with no columns interrupting the space. You can see the opening for the stairway to the left. These interior pictures were taken from the outside of the basement egress window on the west end of the house.

Here is Kenny walking in front of where our shed will be. You can see we've laid forms for the concrete floor of the shed, and right behind that - just off our property - there is a young baseball team sitting in the shade. When I climbed to the top of the dirt pile to get these pics, several of the players were over on our side of the property peeing along our shed base! We had to go and let their coach know (again - since this is an ongoing problem) that this is a dangerous construction site that children shouldn't be playing on. The baseball kids are used to having free reign on our property since it's been vacant for over 25 years.

Our neighbor then told us that there have been people on the site with children during the week - letting them play on the back hoes and excavating equipment. Not cool. I'm glad we have insurance! I don't even let my own kids on that equipment - even for pictures. I can't wait until we are on-site more doing more of the work ourselves. At least one of us is there nearly every day, but not usually for long periods of time. Appartently the issues are in the evenings and on weekends, so hopefully when we get moved into our rental and the house is framed up, we'll be able to work there more on weekends and evenings.

We'll get some more pictures posted after they pour the concrete! We also close on the sale of our house in Florence on Friday, so we'll officially become Ohioans then. Until next time . . .