Flat-work

After a long delay, we've finally poured the slabs.  Another 20+ yards of concrete, this time thankfully less stressful than pouring the walls.  An observant reader might notice that the time frame of my posting does not necessarily correspond to the time frame of the work on the house.  I'll try to keep it in chronological order at least.  The shot below is from the garden across the creek.  The wood supports you see were to keep the edge of the slab vertical where it overhangs the poured concrete wall below.  The carport / basement is in the background.

Here you can see, in the foreground, the sunken living room and, in the background, the main slab.  We've got 2" of rigid foam beneath the slab, and a 15 mil vapor barrier to keep any ground moisture from rising up into the concrete.  This is just a rough slab, for construction, and will ultimately be covered by a 2 1/2" topping slab full of radiant floor piping.

And the view from the carport.  This is the southwest to northeast axis, intersecting the north - south axis of the main house.  Under the carport will be our only real basement area, and it will serve as our staging area for construction.  We'll use 5 steel beams to span the basement walls, with metal deck and a concrete slab on top to create the floor of the carport.  You can also make out the vertical waterproofing on the outside of the block walls below grade.  We first parged the block, then gave it a thick coat of 'Black Mammie' as it's known around here, and finally stuck black plastic in the still-wet bituminous waterproofing.  It was messy, but should be a good barrier against ground moisture.