The reason they do this is so that the plumbers can then come and put in rough plumbing. Using the house plans and the forms, they can measure where all the plumbing needs to go for the kitchen, both bathrooms, laundry room, and water heater. Once this is determined, they dig ditches and put in the pipes.
Master bedroom sink (left) and shower and tub (right).
Master bathroom toilet.
This pipe is called a cleanout. It serves as a main access point to the plumbing even after the house is completed.
Our lot with a completed rough plumb.
Once all the pipes are dug, they have an inspector come by from the city and put a nice blue sticker on the cleanout pipe.
Now the pipes can be covered back up with dirt, and the lot prepped for pouring the footings and foundation.
The concrete contractor comes back and digs more ditches for the footings. For our area, the footings have to be 18" deep in the ground. They dig these footings on all the exterior walls and interior load bearing wall.
Footing for interior load bearing wall.
Footing for exterior wall.
After the footings are dug, they put rebar into the ditches, and wire mesh over the entire house lot where the concrete will be poured.
So once this is done, the lot looks like this:
The slab is almost ready to be poured, but before it can be, it has to pass an inspection by me and the city. For my inspection, a few things I do are double check all the setback measurements, the footing depth, the dimensions of the house and patios, and make sure all the pipes are capped.
So after week three, the lot now looks like this:
As soon as the slab is poured and dry, the framing will happen. So that is the next step! The framing is always really exciting because it starts to look like a house! Hopefully by next week, we've got the slab poured, and a little bit of framing for the house!
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