Pouring the footings

Hard to believe but only a flash of time passed before everything was dug up, rebar placed, and the site was ready to be filled with cement for the footings.

Our builder called to let me know I should meet him on site because the cement trucks would be there around lunchtime.
On site he took a moment to trim and place a couple of pieces of PVC into the north and south footing trenches to be used as a path for plumbing into the foundation. The cement would be poured into the trench soon and the pipe would create a little hole to pass pipes though.

Here's our builder earning some $$:


Here's one of the foundation guys digging to make some room for the pipe. Lots of rebar in that trench.


Minutes later the first cement truck arrived. Our entrance is a bit steep so the driver had to back up the hill to keep the cement from spilling out the back!


Very quickly the guys got to work dumping the cement into the trenches. Then they smoothed the cement flat on top with some wood pieces. In all I think 9 cement trucks arrived, one after the other. Every other cement truck was directed to the opposite corner of the house so they could fill somewhat evenly from both sides of the house instead of dumping everything in the same area and trying to push cement around.
Some pics of the process:





Our genius dog Lucie even managed to fall into the wet cement of one of the footings and was shocked to suddenly be swimming. She could have just asked for a bath...

The cement only needs overnight to dry. The next morning a dozer would push all of the dirt hills from the footing/pier excavation to the side of the pad out of the way and it would be time for stem walls to be built and filled.