Archive for July, 2009

We brought in two crew members from ICWalls, Inc. This is the company that installed the ICF’s (insulated concrete forms) on the first floor of the house. We hired four local carpenters to assist them with the walls. The walls were completed on  April 30th.

Constructions also began on an eight foot high retaining wall in the front of the house. Once complete, this wall will give the Coopers a 12 foot wide level front yard.

Forming up the footing for eight foot retaining wall in the front of the house

All the retaining walls, and the footings on the house, have perforated pipe installed at their bases. The pipes have been wrapped in silt fabric to prevent infiltration of dirt. Drain rock was then put over the pipes, and covered in silt fabric before backfill soils were added. These pipes were connected to the city storm drains in the front of the house so all water along the foundation or retaining wall is now carried away from the structure. In the future, the Coopers hope to add a water collection system that would capture some of the rain water and store it for irrigation in the summer.

Tomorrow the framers will start the interior walls and then the trussed roof.