DAY 78: Basement Slab

Today, December 19th, our basement slab was poured.  WOW!  Merry Christmas to us!  I can't believe that we can keep working on our house in the middle of December with so few weather complications.  Once again I was greeted by cement trucks, a pump and workers when I pulled up to the lot:

Your have to look closely at the picture below to see Brent's (and some of Cole's) work this week.  He had to lay out a wire mesh which covered the PEX tubing.  You can barely see it.  Rick, the subcontractor, said that Brent did a fantastic job on laying out the PEX tubing.  He also told me that building with the ICF adds about 6% to the cost of building a home, a figure I've yet to believe.