SLAB PART TWO NEW HOUSE UPDATE

 As you may have seen HERE on Monday, our slab was poured last Friday!  I went out Saturday to mow and then Sunday, 2nd Man and I went out so we could walk around on the slab together.

It has to cure for a few days but it was safe to walk on just hours after they finished.  They could go ahead and start framing but they are going to wait a few days before they start that.

Here are some pictures are various areas of the house and a couple of photos of the whole slab.

This is a view from the living room toward the screened in porch with the large sliding doors.  Big enough for our farm dining table, the yellow hutch and maybe a couple of chairs to relax in.

This is "seeing through the wall", ha, into the master bath.  The pipe in the foreground is for both bathroom sinks, the rectangular recessed area with the drain in the middle is the walk in shower at the other two slab pipes sticking up are for the toilet closet.  The large one sticking up on the outside is for the septic and you can see the square a/c slab.

Here are a couple of fun pictures:

This is from the front yard looking at the front porch!

Picture a white railing on the right side and one across the front with an opening and then the front door at the back on the left side.  Those two pipes you can see?  Those are for the kitchen sink under the window that will look out onto the porch and front yard.

Speaking of that view...

This is where we still stand and look out the window while washing dishes!  We think we can get used to having this view every day, ha.

Here are a couple of pictures of the slab in its entirety:

This is from the back corner...that's the grilling/kitchen porch and back of the garage looking across the house toward the barn and shed...

...and here is the opposite side; the front corner of the master bedroom closet and guest room, back toward where I was standing in the previous picture.

It was a LOT of concrete.  Our foreman said it ending up being 14 trucks of concrete, which is 140 cubic yards.

How much concrete is that?

It is approximately 28,276 gallons

It weighs 280 tons (or 560,000 pounds)

It poured about 3000 square feet of concrete (living space + garage + porches)

And the slab is 6" thick (standard is 4") and has footings/beams that are almost 4 feet deep into the ground.  It's not moving and it's well up from water that might stand in the yard after a monsoon.  That dirt around the edge has been removed and leveled out with the yard, it was there to hold up the wooded forms.

Wood is being delivered this week and framing will begin as soon as they get the wood!

Our first steps on the more than solid foundation of our future home!