On Thursday, I talked about the excitement that came with watching the footings of our home being built and then poured all in one day. We didn’t go see the lot yesterday, because we didn’t know how much would really even get done. We knew someone would likely come and remove the forms around the footings, but then that guys work would be done, and we didn’t know if anything else would be arranged for that day. Turns out, three different people/crews came!!! The footings forms were taken down, someone came to pour gravel to fill in the basement foundation, and someone even came and delivered the forms for the basement walls!!!
This means that on Tuesday (with Monday being a stat holiday) the basement wall forms will be built up, and possibly even poured! We have NO idea if they will actually be poured, but we try really hard to stay out of the way and not pester the trades for information. We don’t want the people who are working on our house to find us annoying, so we try to just be patient and excited, and so far, its worked, and we’ve been well received. Whether the pour happens on Tuesday or Wednesday, we recently realized that there will be a one week-ish delay on everything after that step, to give the walls lots of time to cure before framing begins. I WISH we could skip that step, but it is obviously a VERY important thing. No one wants their basement walls to crack!! So we wait.
We continue to hope and pray for great weather. The next two weeks are forecasted to be fairly mild, which I am so looking forward to! I just hadn’t considered the week pause in the build, and I would LOVE to keep our framers happy with milder weather. A cold snap would delay things longer than they already have been, and we are praying hard for efficiency! But I do not control the weather, thats for sure! So even if we get the cold snap just in time for framers, I will enjoy the warmth as long as we have it!
Time frames and ideals aside, our house IS being built, and it WILL be ours within the foreseeable future! I cannot wait to continue the process, to enjoy it thoroughly, and to move in at the end of the everything. SUCH wonderful times ahead. New baby, new home, life is crazy!!!