Week 13: Floored

This past weekend, the slab was poured, so we have a flat surface to walk on finally. It's a little hard to get down to it still without a fair amount of leaping and scrambling. Not recommended for acrophobics. Right now it feels really small, comparing our house to the expanse of nature, but everyone assures us that it won't feel that way anymore once there are some walls up, which seems a bit counterintuitive.


This is the view from the guest wing, you can still see the mountains off in the distance even with all the leaves on the trees.


There are really a ridiculous number of holes that need to come up through the slab, most of those are for the plumbing, but there's also one to stop radon from building up underneath the slab. This part seems to have gone a good deal more smoothly that the holes through the foundation walls. Some subcontractors came and set up sleeves (basically just a piece of PVC pipe that is put in before the concrete is poured, so after it's done you have a nice neat hole), and some didn't bother. There was a fair amount of last minute juggling to make sure every thing that could be managed was in before they poured the walls on the guest wing. We ended up a little better off there than on the main wing, but even so some of them ended up being in the wrong place. One of the two "working" trips I've made to the site so far was to help get the ones I will need for the network wiring in place, but coordinating the rest of them has been Melanie's bailwick.


And here's me standing in my office-to-be.