Preparing For The Garage Foundation -- With 3" and Under Stone Over Geofabric -- ANAND Enterprises Project RedW1J1102

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The soil in the Garage area needed some help -- so we stripped off all the organic material from the top, laid geofabric on and then placed 12" - 18" bedding of nominally 3" and under stone. It was a nice cool morning to work in and for a change it was dry.

Here I share some pictures with you that I took -- the pictures are presented in the order in which they were taken:

Getting Ready To Pour Footings For House Walls New ICF Construction -- ANAND Enterprises Project RedW1J1102

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This new energy efficient house with ICF walls is on a beautiful location with wooded area in the back. The water table in the area is pretty high so we have to make sure that the Insulating Concrete Form (ICF) walls are able to withstand the lateral pressure from the backfill. The footings are formed with Form-A-Drain and the footings will be wrapped with waterproofing membrane to ensure that the drainage slots in the Form-A-Drain surface do not get clogged.

It is a pretty wet day today -- the day of the pour ... the dewatering pump is running almost continuously. With the fine crew responsible for pouring the footings the situation is under control and is in good hands.

We had the Building Official come out and we had his approval. So without much further ado, let me share some pictures that I took at the site:

In the next post I will talk about prepping for the Garage footings.