… so as I was saying … a couple days after the walls were poured, they came back and started to remove the forms. Surprisingly this took a couple of days because of the cleaning they had to do to reuse the forms.
While they worked, we painted the outside walls with that goopy damp proofing stuff.
When they left we installed the radon vent pipe and ordered 25 yards of pea gravel (aka “radon rock”) for the interior of the basement under the slab
Moving 25 yards or pea gravel BY HAND, is a lot of work for 50 somethings.
We also ordered 20 yards of 2” washed rock for the perimeter under and around the perforated drain pipe. Good thing we have a tractor.
After cleaning out a nice area around the footings, we started by laying down a 2” layer of rock, then laid the 4” perforated pipe on top of that layer and against the footing. The pipe we used had a filter sock on it to keep sediment out of the pipe.
After the pipe was laid, we poured more gravel on top, about 12”. Then another piece of 3’ wide filter material on top of the rock around the perimeter, then more rock on that. After a month, the concrete will be 100% set and we can backfill the remaining amount.
Today, the concrete guys came out to pour the slab. Holy cow they were good. Smooth as glass!
Yay! now we can start on framing! The tractor really helped with the unloading of the engineered lumber* delivered today.
* More about engineered lumber in the next episode … stay tuned.
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