Pouring Concrete

Finally the day arrived-it actually has warmed up enough to pour the concrete in the basement. They weren't able to pour the concrete because the basement was full of snow. We had to rent an actual household heater and run the heater for 6 weeks or so, to melt the snow, then they had to haul in dirt and gravel to soak up the water, flatten that out and then wait for a "warm" enough day to pour the concrete. They just had to build the house up on top of the dirt (snow) basement. Today we went to the house and walked around deciding where we wanted cable and light switches, yippee! Now, that was exciting. The next two weeks they will do the electrical work and plumbing work and also frame out the basement. In the above pictures- you can see huge truck in the street, we thought that they would drive the truck around to the back of the house, but as you can see by the 2nd picture they just stretched the huge concrete pump over the top of the house!!! Then you can see the men in the basement working on the wet concrete. It is dry now and fun to go walk on and envision the basement.