Our excavator finished his work on the cabin and garage footings June 30th (YEAH!). so last weekend we worked on footings. The footings for both the garage and the cabin are 10 inches deep and 24 inches wide. The cabin will have a walk out basement so has a step footing, making it a bit more complicated so we tackled that one first. took us 2 days to get it level and square but we got there! Saturday morning Jack and DJ came up to help with the garage footings. it was a scorching hot day and SO humid, we weren't able to get too much done. Jack and DJ helped us cover all the footings with tarps, as we were due for rain that night. after the rain, things were MUCH too muddy to work safely for a few days so worked on other things Sunday and took Monday off:)
got the ICF for both the garage and cabin ordered. 4 courses for the garage and 7 courses for the cabin. ~$6,300. quite a deal!
we plan on finishing the footing this weekend, pour footing cement on the following Monday and start stacking ICF the weekend of the 17th.
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Panderson's Progress
Woooo! Finally a Minnesotan (that I'm aware of) paving the way for the other local members! Can't recall - you're going 35x35, right?
JP
Elk River, MN
JayRae
Thanks JayRae. Yes we're doing a 35x35 cabin with walkout basment and a 36x36 garage. we're doing the cement work for both at the same time, stacking garage first to hopefully prevent making any newbie mistakes on the cabin... and hope to have the garage weather tight by mid October. we'll see how that goes! thanks for asking!
we're stacking ICF this weekend. if you want some experience, come on up! it looks like Jack and DJ will be there too.