Floors!

And now we have floors! 

The plumbing rough-in was topped off with a layer of sand. Next up was plastic sheeting for a vapor barrier. Shown here with rebar laid on top to hold it in place.

Step 2 was a layer of 2in foam sheets for insulation. Don't want to lose our in-floor heat to the ground. 

The gaps shown here will be extra weight-bearing support for the stairs and second floor. When the concrete is poured it will create thicker pads in these spots for footings. 

Then comes the heat tubing. We'll have 2 heating zones: The open, vaulted rooms, and the closed rooms with normal ceilings. Also seen is the wiring (or at least the tubes for running the wiring) for the floor outlets in the great room (missing the box for the second outlet in this shot) and the kitchen island. Since there are no walls in close proximity, they had to go into the floor with the other end in a future wall. 

Yesterday- CONCRETE! Poured the floors for the interior of the buildings. LOTS of smoothing and polishing involved. The machine here is a ride-on, and has two spinning blades on the bottom to make it all smooth and level. The guy on his knees has metal "skis" under his lower legs and feet, and trowels under his hands. He slid around pretty easily getting all the areas around the pipes, where the machine couldn't get that close. 

Today- The interior floors got their cuts for later cracking. The idea is that when (not if) the concrete cracks, it will do so along those lines. Then the floors were poured for the outside areas- garages and porches. Different recipe of concrete mix, and a rougher finish. Also sloped slightly for drainage of rain and snow-melt. In the pic below they have a sheet of plastic spread over the floor so they can use the wheelbarrow to get concrete to the back porch. No pumper this time; they had to haul it into place the old-fashioned way. 

All done! They'll be back tomorrow to remove the framing. 

Now we just need walls to hang the TV on!

Updates:

1. The lovely driveway did NOT hold up entirely to the return of the cement trucks. But the parts that were still too soft are the parts we expected to not be driveway in the end. We'll work it all out. 

2. The bill for the driveway was exactly what the quote was. I wouldn't be surprised to find out he lost money on us. Or at least got less profit than expected.

3. Sid doubled my swing rope, then added a third loop that is loose so it won't wear through. If the main rope breaks, the extra loop should catch me.