Finishing the cement
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7
With the basement walls done, we now had to finish the basement slab. There was a lot of prep work to do.
Footing drains had to be installed all the way around the outside of the cement footing:
There was a lot of foam board to install under the slab:
Footings to form (they will hold up posts for beams):
Sumps for the footing drain and washing machine:
Connecting the footing drain to the sump:
Basement stairwell landing drain:
Rock thrower giving us the crush rock need for the 4" gravel base for the slab:
Finally putting the pink foam down on top of the compacted crushed rock:
On pour day we had a big crew:
It started raining hard a little after this. Let's just say we had a tarp up with holes in it to drip into buckets:
The next day, the block lights for the basement go in:
