My "guy" (Norm) has been on vacation living it up in Cali, so not much progress this week. On our way to a dinner in Leavenworth, we dropped by the site to mount the *new* Brinno time-lapse camera. New location that will hopefully be a little more productive.
The footings are now formed, but no rebar yet.
The footings are now formed, but no rebar yet.
Panorama from the NW corner
From the North edge of the cabin
From the SE corner
From the NW corner looking SE (note the unsupervised teenager playing with the rebar.)
From the NW corner looking E.
From the NW corner looking due East
Looking West to where the cabin will rise from the dirt (taken from the neighbor's stair landing)
My pile of rocks. (I love them.)
Despite little activity at the site, I did stumble upon some stellar purchases this week.
I ordered all the in-floor heating. Ended up going with ThermoSoft in-floor heating. (We need to have the ThermSlab cable when we pour the slab on grade.) I would have preferred to get the Step Warmfloor system, but it was WAY TOO EXPENSIVE -- like over 3X more expensive. There was no way to make it pencil out, even calculating electric cost savings for a decade.
I also poached my dream faucet on ebay this week, a Kohler Karbon wall-mounted beauty, brand new at the screaming deal price of just under $400. Considering it retails for $2000, I'm feeling pretty smug about my auction win.
The final purchase this week was 4 identical faucets for each bathroom. These are Cifial 221.157.620 wall faucet satin nickel techno series. I went ahead and purchased these now even though I won't need them until we're close to done -- mostly because they are not widely carried, and I found a pretty good price.
You'll notice, I like wall mounted faucets. I just hate cleaning all the crud that builds up around the bases of faucets. With wall-mounted and the handle over the sink, this just seems like the perfect setup (to me.)
Question on the footing framing: why so many offsets? Are you just trying to avoid cutting the boards to re-use them later? If so, will you wrap them in anything? Cheers
ReplyDeleteBecause the footings arent "for show" they don't worry too much about their aesthetic. Some folks these days do footings poured straight into trenches with no framing at all (if the soil is stable). The key things is the height, width and the rebar, which are both according to the engineer's spec. It's basically economy of effort, and allows the boards to be reused later as well.
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