Thursday, May 21, 2009

The Slab is Poured!

As I write this, it is currently 80 degrees in my basement. Why? Because the concrete slab has finally been refilled, and I have the heat up to help it dry! This is one of the few things I am not doing myself. I had FM Concrete of Aurora do the work and they did an amazing job. It is nice to have a "concrete guy" that I can trust with my concrete needs.

As you can see, we no longer have a hole!

The Entire Redone Slab

There it is, the guys at FM Concrete poured this in about 45 minutes. Super fast! As you can see we have a stub up for the utility sink that will be in the storage room, a new floor drain, a box for the bathtub drain, and the vent for the tub right next to the box.

Where the Toilet Will Be

As you can see the toilet drain is stubbed up, so when we put the new floor down we will be able to cut it flush with the new floor.

5 comments:

  1. I was amazed at how quickly it dried. The next morning it was dry and not wet looking anymore. Apparently, a chemical reaction occurs that heats it up when it is sitting still to help it dry fast. If we wanted to we could have started framing to it the next day!

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  2. So when's the framing start then?

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  3. Probably in three weeks! First, I have to get the subfloor down. That will probably happen this weekend for the whole basement. Then, The next weekend I need to move the water heater, install a new furnace, and move the gas line around. That will be a long weekend... Then once those things are done, I will be able to frame the whole thing! Hopefully, we will be done framing by early to mid-July.

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  4. Oh yeah, and we did do some framing last weekend for one wall. That was really tough because it was the wall with the drain pipes. So we had to get subfloor down, then redo in-wall drains and then get wall up. Thank goodness it was a 3 day weekend because we worked about 33 hours that weekend. I'm still tired from it...

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