Retaining walls go up

One side of the form is mounted on top of the footers, rebar is installed and another panel is added at the correct width for the wall being created.


Joe Hernanedez aligns the pumper truck nozzle and monitors the fill while the truck operator controls the boom with a remote control. The crew follows finishing the surface of the concrete and adding J bolts where needed.


The finished foundation ready for the next step.

As soon as the forms for the footers were removed, the concrete crew started setting up retaining wall forms. The house design called for a 6' retaining wall to run the entire length of the house with stepped down wings off each end. In addition the guest bedrooms on the upper level of the site required a 4' retaining wall at the back side where this section of the house is bermed into the slope.

More plumbing, electrical conduit, and sleeves were installed at this stage before the forms were fully assembled. The pour occurred on Monday afternoon June 16th without incident and forms were removed the following day. By Wednesday, the concrete crew was gone along with all their equipment. I had to wait a week for the concrete to cure before getting a small tracked excavator into the structure to dig sewer drain pipe trenches.