Finally Footings

Finally we are going again.  Since our last post March 24th, we have moved dirt around 2-3 times from one place to another, cut trees to clear the view and mulched them, then waited the past month for the wet weather pattern to change so we could dry out the hill and get some footings dug.  Well we finally have them.  Last week on Tuesday, the hill was dried out enough to dig the footings and put in the re-enforcing bar.  Inspection Wednesday morning and they were pouring concrete in the footings by Wednesday afternoon.  Here is what we looked like late Wednesday.

Thursday morning concrete block arrived and the block masons were busy at work too.

 Thursday evening, we had this.

By Saturday evening, we had this:

And from the other viewpoint above:

The finished block in the basement, now looks like this:

The rest of the basement will be stick built to level out the foundation for the first floor.  Concrete block 12" wide is used where dirt will be backfilled against the foundation. Then concrete fills the cells all along the walls that will have dirt against them, mostly the back wall, which is 12 feet high, or 19  courses high.  Enough for now, will post some more tomorrow.  We have a floor to pour.