Subfloor progress and backfill

The subfloor has been completed along with the basement stairs, which should keep any more weather from impacting the basement. The basement walls have also been backfilled where appropriate on the exterior:

Even though this concrete has cured for a week, NCC still has special bracing inside to ensure there are no problems with the added load of the dirt backfill:

Floor System and other details

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Floor trusses going in place

Today, work started on the floor trusses, after the interior load bearing walls were completed:

Basement ICF ready

Here's a few photos from yesterday afternoon - all the ICF blocks for the basement level are ready for the concrete to be poured, which should start today. The most time consuming thing is cutting out the locations for the windows and building a wooden structure in their place to support the concrete until it hardens:

Concrete Progress

Footings are all hardened, and the crush rock is laid - should see the floor slab and walls start soon.

It's always interesting building a house in MN...

Wake up the next day, and it all looks like this! Don't worry, the footings are under blankets, settling in nicely:

Foundation work begins

The fine gentlemen at VanHaren Construction started work today on the footings. Here are some photos from mid-day:

Excavation Nearing Completion

I talked to the excavator as he was finishing up today. The cement guys should be starting to pour the footings tomorrow, as weather allows - up to 6 inches of snow is predicted by Saturday morning!

Continued excavation work

Wow, there is a LOT of dirt getting dug up! The excavators worked until it was too dark today - here are some photos near the end of the day:

My General Contractor - Northfield Construction

My general contractor has a very nice web site and will be doing some blog posts of his own throughout this build. The first one is here.