Round two of excavation, footings, frost wall, stone and concrete floor for the garage has begun! Although we had to return to excavation, the second time with this process was much more efficient, and in a week, the excavation was done, the footings were dug, built and poured, and the frost wall was built and poured! It was a busy week!!
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| Garage excavation completed. |
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| Garage footings before the concrete pour. |
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| Footings after the concrete pour. |
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| Frost wall and first wall of blocks for the garage. |
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| Concrete pour for the frost wall. |
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| View of the garage, standing on the first floor of the house. |
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| Tiller checking out the progress! |
The following week, we prepped the garage for the concrete slab, which included back filling the frost wall, digging a haunched slab footing, pipe for the power to the basement, pipe for electrical outlets in the floor of the workshop, and a stone base. Once that was completed, 6 mil poly was placed on top of the stones as a vapor barrier.
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| Stone base for garage slab. |
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| Ready for concrete! |
The pour for the garage slab was delayed due to rainy weather, so we started building the walls on the house this same week, as you can see in the photos above! We are planning to pour the garage slab this coming week, so more photos will be added when that is completed.
About a week later, we poured the garage slab with a small crew of helpers! We needed three concrete trucks and 26 yards of concrete for this pour! Below are some photos as the floor was being poured, leveled and finished.
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| Leveling the concrete. |
In the photo above, you can see the metal keyed joints which serve as contraction joints for the concrete, and were used as starting and stopping points for pouring the concrete.
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| The left section of concrete is being leveled, and the right side is being finished. |
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| The remainder of the concrete for the floor being poured. |
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Floor is poured, but not quite finished or dry yet in this photo.
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