Block Laying…Days 5 & 6

The past couple of days have brought lots of progress on the “L” Shaped House. The garage and crawl space foundation walls are up to grade level. This photo shows Matt building the first corner section for one of the garage door openings. There will be three courses of exposed 6 inch block all the way around the garage foundation wall. The framing will sit on top of these blocks. It is still a little hard to imagine that the garage floor will end up at Matt’s waist level in the photo. The whole East end is nearly complete.

The next photos show the garage end wall with an opening for the entry door. The garage slab will sit on the “ledge” formed by the 6 inch blocks resting on top of the 12 inch block foundation wall (shown in the second photo).

 

The two photos below show the progress being made in the West end. The first shows the foundation wall built on the deep footing underpinning the basement walk-out door. The second shows the wall one day later as it starts to wind it’s way around the guest bedroom footing. Jim Sletten has just one more corner “lead” to build…then its on to the old foundation wall repairs.