It's the end the stressful week one.
On Tuesday, David spent the whole day rerouting the septic. Notice that he didn't dig the trenches by hand! There were two pipes that were re-routed - the drain pipe to the septic tanks, and the pipe through which the effluent is pumped to the mound. Not a fun job.

Because of how quickly the contractor started, there were a lot of coordination issues. Luckily they were all worked out. The first crisis (after
the septic) was to figure out how much rebar was needed, when it was needed, and who would order it. The contractor ended up giving the lumber yard the material list for the footings, chain wall, and slab on Tuesday, and it was delivered on Wednesday. Here's a picture of the $1400 of rebar, ties, and wire mesh - not real impressive, is it?

The crew came back on Thursday - once again the lack of an english-speaking member of the crew was a difficulty, and David spent a lot of time calling the contractor, who called the crew chief, who called the crew and relayed David's concerns. About 1 pm, the crew drove out, leaving David wondering if or when they were planning to come back to finish the hour of work that was left before he called for an inspection. By the time the contractor, crew chief, and David met to look over the foundation, it was too late to get an inspection for a Friday pour. The contractor & crew chief assured David that everything would be ok with the foundation/inspection. The North wall that weaves back and forth 4" is within tolerance, the inspector wouldn't notice that there were only 2 pieces of rebar for the pilings instead of the 4 that are needed (they will add the missing pieces before the pour), the missing bulkheads at the steps is no big deal, and the other areas where some additional dirt needs to be dug out where the rebar touches the ground weren't bad enough to keep from getting approval from the inspection (this is only in a couple of places).The crew chief/contractor were right. The inspector came out this afternoon and the foundation passed with flying covers. They didn't notice the missing rebar. Their only comments were that some of the loose dirt/clods need to be removed, and that the septic pipes need to be cut flush with the edge of the trench. They complemented the quality of the footings, saying it was the only good foundation that they had seen in 3 weeks of inspections.

Unfortunately, the concrete supplier is booked up tomorrow, so they won't pour the footings until Monday. Maybe that will David some time to relax! And maybe he'll have time to look at the bed I found on Craigslist, if it hasn't sold yet!