Talk about stressful! Since they got the foundations poured a couple of weeks ago, the weather has been less than cooperative. In fact, it's been awful. We've had tons of rain, not quite Biblical amounts, but lots of it and we've been getting it every day. Last week, it rained steadily for 2 days. With the state of our "driveway" and lacking the funding to improve it, we've been really worried about how long we'd have to wait until Bob was able to get the concrete trucks and pumper truck up to the house. The ground up there just turns into this very slick, messy goo that bogs down all but the best 4-wheel drive pickups. They tell us it's all the clay in the soil. With guests coming later this year, we've been worried that if we didn't get the basement poured soon, we'd be so far behind with the framing that we wouldn't be ready for them. So, this morning when Carol answered the phone and found Bob on the other end, we weren't expecting good news.
Well folks, we were wrong! Bob and his crew had somehow managed to cajole a couple of heavily laden trucks up the driveway and had them pour their expensive loads into the forms the guys had waiting for them. We have a basement! Well, okay, all we have is basement walls - Bob won't get them back to do the floors until everything dries out some more. But, at least he can start framing the rest of the house on top of the walls. The inspector is coming on Thursday to check out the drainage and waterproofing. Assuming it's all good, he will give them the Okey-Dokey to go ahead and backfill around the basement. Then the real work can get started. The framing is much less dependent on the weather so we are hopeful that everything will progress smoothly and we can get back on schedule.
We'll get up and take some pictures in the next day or two and post 'em up here.
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