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<\/a><\/p>\nBy the time we were done, there was over 2,000 feet of the tubing installed.\u00a0 There are 8 loops between 250 and 300 feet long which will each connect to a manifold with zone valves on it so we can control each of those loops independently.\u00a0 That will allow us to have one thermostat keeping the master bedroom at one temperature, while keeping the living room at a different temp with another thermostat, for example.\u00a0 This was the final step before pouring the concrete<\/p>\n
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It is 6 am, Friday October 11th, exactly one month after closing on the loan and marking the the official start of our project.\u00a0 It is way too early in the morning for me to be awake and functioning, but today is the day our slab will be poured, and the first cement truck should be rolling down the driveway in about an hour.\u00a0 The concrete guys show up and make sure everything is ready, and sure enough, right around 7am, the first truck pulls in the driveway.\u00a0 At 7:12 am, the first load starts sliding down the chute and into the footing.<\/p>\n
Over the next few hours, a total of 5 cement trucks will show up and dump a whole bunch of grey sloppy rocky soup into the area where our house will be, slowly covering up the last few weeks worth of work, and making it all permanent.<\/p>\n We watched and helped as long as we could, but unfortunately one of the challenges of building our own house while also running a business means we had to leave to take care of some jobs we had scheduled before we knew this would be the date of the pour.\u00a0 When we returned later that afternoon, the slab was poured, hard enough to walk on, and nearly ready for some walls to be built.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n