Foundation poured....

This weekends projects include waterproofing the foundation. I was gonna use a sheet membrane and do this myself, but its difficult to find concrete guys with forms that dont have a brick impression on them. If we used the sheet membrane, we'd have to have parged the entire house foundation to make it smooth. So, I figured - fine, we'll trowel on some liquid rubber membrane. NOPE! no place in town sells anything like that for below grade foundations. I was ready to start calling places from here to Omaha and Minneapolis and just drive to go get it. But, I settled on having a local contractor come out and do it. It wont be as thick as I'd want - I'm having him make two passes, so - its a near-miss almost happy medium of cost/frustration/etc.

Once that is setup, I'll be applying rigid insulation from footing to sill (under slab too - but thats next week). I need to get my basement plumbing septic lift basin in too and the corresponding below slab plumbing to connect to it. I'm just rough plumbing this in, so it wont have to be done later. We dont intend of having to use it. The main septic drain leaves the house in such a way, that everything should be able to be gravity fed out w/o pumps.

Adventures for next week: digging trench for water supply and the flatwork for the garage floor and basement floor. I think we'll just move in when thats done.