The Masters House

The foundation and the driveway for the house were poured within the last 2 days. I was really surprised to see them pour them back-to-back when in our current house it was almost a whole month between each one.

One interesting tidbit is that there is only one water piper under the foundation. This is the main line that comes into the garage for the water softener. This makes me happy because that means that all the rest of the water pipes in the house are going to be in the walls.

While it is not such a nice thing to have pouring out of your walls if/when a pipe fails it is a whole lot easier to fix. With a pipe repair in the wall you have drywall that you need to replace and probably flooring. With a under-the-slab repair you have to rip up the flooring, cut into the foundation, and ding into the dirt under the house to get to the pipe. The less foundation cutting the better (and cheaper too!).

This is not to say that I am expecting to have plumbing problems but I am sure I will need to fix something within the next 20 or so years while we live there. The other thing that is cool is that they are not actually using pipes – it is flexible PVC tubing instead. I would imagine that it is less prone to corrosion and bursting when it freezes.

Before the pour I ventured out with my video camera to document where various drain pipes and the single water pipe was located. At the time I thought that they would add more pipes under the cement and almost erased the video. I am sure glad that I didn’t now.

Finally, part of our roof trusses have already showed up as well. I fully expect that the house could be completely framed out by the end of next week. It only took 1 day to frame our current house. The new house is 2 store and 50% bigger so I think it will take somewhat longer.

Anyway, exciting things are happening.

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