The smell of sawdust

Taking Shape

It didn't take long for this to happen...  The form setters showed up this morning and demonstrated an advanced lesson in Geometry. 

They actually staked out points beyond the house, staked and squared, and then ran string line across all 4 corners. Then, working inwards, they set the exact position of all the forms.  You can see the shape of the house from here.  There are a lot of cuts in and out where the house changes direction.  Also, the height of the forms changes all around the house, because where there is a porch, garage door,  entry door, courtyard, etc.  All these things require a "drop" in elevation and then slope. 

Only one minor emergency.  On the plans was a dimension line that looked like it terminated in a particular place but did not.  It all made sense in the end, but a couple calls to the designer and also the CAD guy.  Nice to have them help, and made me feel a lot better when the crew was able to measure full circle around the house and get back to the same spot using some math. 

Here is a shot from the other direction...

I was hopefull we could have the plumber on site tomorrow, who will place all the drain tubing in trenches and locate all the drains, vents, and geothermal conduit.  Even though the weather is now very good, unfortunately he is behind on other jobs and can't get here till Monday.  I think that will eventually cause us not to pour concrete before Christmas. 

Otherwise, it was refreshing to see the house grow upwards about a foot, and I have to say I was pretty excited to smell fresh cut sawdust...  mmmmm.

OH, here is a shot of the "Tube" we took the other day.  Didn't get that downloaded till now...  Have a look...

I am hopefull that someday I can show you some pics with some blue sky...

That's it for now..