Foundation Drain

I never want to shovel gravel again in my life.
Today we as a family put in the foundation drain.  Since we have piles of dirt around the perimeter of the house, there was no way to get a tractor around the house to dump gravel.  This meant, we shoveled 5 gallon buckets of gravel...and dumped them on the 4" foundation drain pipe.

Based on my calculations we shoveled 300 buckets full.
Which is 15,000 pounds.
Which is about 2/3 of a dump truck full.
Scott carried ev ery single bucket.

It took us 6 full hours.  It was so much work.  So so so much work.  We are pooped.

Waterproofing

The black gunk was sprayed today

Foundation Forms Off

Foundation Poured

Foundation Forms

Foundation forms going up today. Inspection tomorrow morning, pouring walls tomorrow afternoon.

Footings Poured

Footings

Footings being set up

Elevation

Back to the county to get a revision on our elevation.  We were going to be a little "low" in the ground, so I had to get permission to raise our TOW (foundation height).  All stamped...ready to continue.

Surveyor

Marking out where the walls go in the excavated pit...

Septic Delivery

 1750 gallon septic - which is ginormous.  

No idea why the county required such a large tank.

Excavating

Excavation selfie

Permit issued!