The great part about building a new home is watching the progress and changes on a daily basis. One of the best is when the basement floor poured. It is amazing what a difference it is not having to trip over pipes, piles of rock and dirt, and holes. There is a lot of preparation necessary. It began on a Friday afternoon when Hottmann Construction brought out their ground heater to pull the frost out of the ground. The ground heater is a large heat generator that pumps hot fluid through a maze of hose laid out on the basement floor, and then covered with blankets. It worked nonstop from Friday afternoon until it was uncovered and put away on Monday morning, mission accomplished.
From there, the Hottmann crew snapped their lines, graded the floor, covered it with an inch of Dow Styrofoam, and spread out a polyethylene vapor barrier, and then called in the concrete trucks. Once there, the concrete was belted into the house and dropped into the basement. The belt truck can operate from the road, eliminating the huge mess and problems which result when concrete trucks have to drive over bare ground that is in the process of losing its frost. The belt truck may be the single best factor in the erosion control expense and efforts we take to control it.
The finishers moved in once the floor was poured and made sure the floor was prepared to the specs necessary for us to put our final finish on it.
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