Joe and his crew are setting up forms. The forms in the lower right are footers for the framed garage. The forms in the center are roughly 2'x2' in profile and will require 2" foamboard insulation on outside to protect them.
Forms for the guest bedrooms are being assembled.
The concrete crew from Advanced Concrete Solutions showed up on site Tuesday May 20th to begin setting up forms for the foundation. The foundation is a complex design which is a mix of deep footers with stemwalls for the framed portion (the garage) and shallow frost protected areas for the Double adobe walls. Since the walls are 24 inches thick our Structural engineer, Jeff Ruppert tried to minimize the amount of concrete required to support the walls where possible. In addition, there is also a 6' tall retaining wall where the guest bedrooms step up from the main floor (this was to accomodate the sloped site and to allow for south facing windows in this area for more solar gain). The north side of the guest bedrooms are 4' below grade which required a retaining wall as well.
Joe Hernandez and his crew were amazingly quick in understanding the layout and getting it forms in place. In spite of rain Thursday & Friday, they had the forms ready the following Thursday.
A concrete pour date was set for Monday June 2nd. Now it is our turn in the trenches to place electrical, media, water, and radiant plumbing in the forms.
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