Foundation poured

A few pictures after the foundation was poured. Yes, that is snow dusting the ground on the left.


We poured the foundation on Dec 15th , after a week delay for weather. The Seattle area was hit with a cold snap when the temperature didn't get above freezing for 10 days; we couldn't pour the concrete in sub-freezing weather. The bright spot however was that the prolonged cold snap froze the roadbed, so when the concrete trucks did come up for the pour they did minimal damage to our dirt road! The grand total for the pour was 8 truckloads of concrete, for a grand total of 320,000 pounds of concrete.

Here it is, the foundation, waiting for the dirt to be filled back in around the walls. This picture is from the northeast corner, looking at what will eventually be our front door. The forms have been taken off much of the wall, but you can still see some on the left side of the picture.

This photo is inside the basement of the west wing of the house (on the original plans, this was to be a 4' deep crawl space, but the slope of the hill was more than we expected). The forms are off the wall, and you can see the cutout for door into the central part of the basement, and a window facing south from the basement.