For many frustrating weeks we were firmly stuck while the engineer and the rebar shop went back and forth with shop drawings.
Now we have cleared the hurdle and are set to go back to real work! Since we had finished the footer forms we spent our time doing odd jobs on the land and unfortunatly fixing storm damage. More on that but we can all cheer now because we finally have REBAR!
The shop drawings are done and the rebar for the footer has arrived. Unfortunately they forgot part of our order so we have to pick it up this afternoon to start tomorrow as planned. At least it is available to pick up and it won't cause more delays.
The next week or two will be busy ones as we get the rebar all set in our footer forms, pour and then start our stem walls.
It took 7 weeks of revisions and fulfilling the order to get our footer rebar. During this time mother nature was not nice to us. We had several severe flash flooding storms that partially washed out our footer forms.
With this water also came collapsing foundation hole walls and lots of silt that had to be hand shoveled out. We ended up shoveling out 2 separate times. Some areas filled up with as much as 8 inches full of silt. We are sore but it has all been removed and prepped to start tomorrow. We are crossing our fingers for no more heavy rain but we did build some drainage trenches to divert water as well as some strategic use of gravel to prevent more collapse. This experience has added pressure to be done with this ground work stage so we don't keep redoing work we have already completed!
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