Prep for Concrete Steps and Slabs, Plumbing and HVAC Begins

It looks like the roof is pretty much shingled. So it's time to move on to other aspects of the construction.

Roof is shingled.



We now have a hole for the exhaust hood.

This is the garage.
You can see the vapor barrier, re-bar and framing is ready for the garage floor slab to be poured.
We could also finally get close enough to see the placement of the dark red beam in the garage.
You can also see along the back wall four (4) HVAC runs and all the way to the left is the chase.

A closer in picture of the framing on the garage back wall.

Through the garage wall framing we you can see the window which will be over the kitchen sink.

A view through the dining room window. You can see the unfinished framing around the stairs and another HVAC run. The hole in the stair framing is to allow a path for the concrete to be pumped into the basement. 

This is still a view from the living room window, but this time looking towards the back left corner of the house. You can see more HVAC runs and the radon exhaust pipe. If you look closely, to the left of the radon pipe, there are plumbing supply lines for the powder room back there. I think the other white pipe all the way to the left is a waste pipe coming from upstairs.

The two pipes that you see just to the left of center are conduit pipes for any future electrical and low voltage upgrades. These pipes actually run through the living room wall. They run from the basement all the way up into the attic. One pipe will be for electrical and the other pipe will be for low voltage lines like network cabling. 

A view of the plumbing lines as they run through the foyer ceiling and to the upstairs.
You can also barely see another dark red beam in the great room ceiling.  The plumbing lines are actually stopping at the beam to turn to go upstairs. This beam is upset so that it falls flush with the rest of the ceiling.

They were also to the point where they were cutting holes in the sub-floor for the HVAC registers. 

Framing for the concrete stairs out of the basement areaway. We're glad that we will have a straight shot into the basement and will not have to make a turn. Hopefully, when we go to finish the basement, this will make it easy to get the drywall and other materials in and out.

This is a closer view to show the preparation for pouring the basement concrete slab.

Here we are closer still. You can see the drain pipe which will be outside the basement door at the bottom of the stairs. The drain pipe feeds into the interior/exterior french drain system. The drain ultimately goes to the sump pump.

You can also see that they have spread crushed stone, added a vapor barrier and added a thin wire mesh to reinforce the concrete. It's hard to tell in the pictures, but the reinforcement here vs the garage slab are different. The garage slab didn't have stone and thin wire, but instead had re-bar to hold the weight of the future cars. Both have the vapor barrier material.

A close-up of the garage vapor barrier and re-bar. You can see through the vapor barrier here that there is not any stone beneath like in the basement. We were a little worried about the difference from the construction of the basement slab. However we learned that the garage did not need stone because the garage would have the higher strength re-bar reinforced slab.

They have also installed the water supply line for the refrigerator.