Finally – some wood – and more concrete

We’ve made significant progress in the last two weeks.  Basement Contractors poured the basement floor, the theater room floor, the garage floor and more of the exterior walls.  So now we’ve poured more than 250 cubic yards of concrete and we still have a lot more concrete to go.  The weather was cooperating nicely until early Friday afternoon when it started raining.  It didn’t stop until late Sunday afternoon.  It turns out the theater room would be a fine swimming pool – however, I hope it never has water in it  again! 

Donny and his crew framed most of the basement, set the support beams and before the rain began on Friday, they set most of the floor joists in place.  Because the concrete is notched for each floor joist, no nails were used to hold the joists in place.  We will level the joists next week and install water resistant Huber Advantec Floor Decking (made in Broken Bow Oklahoma).   If all goes well, Basement Contractors will be back later next week to do some backfill and begin setting the forms for the garage and first floor.