Now that we have the footings, it’s time for walls. We are building our cement walls with insulated concrete forms (ICF’s), which lock together like Lego bricks and go together very quickly.

Future mechanical room.

Future powder room.

Guts of the ICF.

Future crafting closet.

The only thing stopping these babies from being done already is that we ran out of the plastic dohickies that lock the insides together. More should arrive early next week.

In the meantime, Morgan has been calling concrete contractors to get quotes for pouring stem walls and retaining walls for the non-ICF bits, and for the slab. It’s an old refrain, “everything costs way more than you think it will”, and it’s old because it’s TRUE.

Today Ben Flaster came over to help move the electrical panel out of the way so we can slide a big beam in the south wall tomorrow. We still have power, and nobody got hurt. All that and the weather is still with us, we are very lucky people.