Ian Royle

I’m a little less than a  month into building our house.  On the 25th of August will be our foundation inspection.  A month to the day that I started.  I broke ground with on the foundation on the 25th of July.  Today, I was finishing up the final touches.  I installed the sump pit, a 24 inch diameter 30 inch deep liner, undermined the footing to install the 4 inch PVC for the sump.  Would have been more correct to have installed before I poured concrete but mistakes happen the first time you try.  So I’ll be packing hydrolic cement in around the pipe to secure it.  As well finished installing the weeping tile on the undisturbed clay around the footing.  I’m most happy about how the foundation turned out.  I put a lot of extra time into doing my footing before stacking my ICF’s and that made all the difference, the extra effort in the early stages made it so much easier to install the ICF’s.  They were a breeze.  Dampproofing with the soprema was also very easy and completed yesterday.  Tomorrow I will get the 3/4 inch washed rock on top of the weeping tile with the bobcat and tie in my T to the sump pit, and tighten down the last few bolts on the sill plates.