Ground Floor footings

The ground floor footings are laid out, defining all the rooms on this floor over the ground (as opposed to over the basement).  These have a Radon barrier placed over them and the interior filled back up with earth.

These footings will support the block walls internally, and ICF externally or for load-bearing.  The plumber has also been in to install soil-pipes for waste water and showers at this level so that they will be under the path level on the finished build.  This will stop all the pipes being visible on the finished walls.  For the 1st floor, these pipes will route via the suspended ceilings internally.

Also added at this stage are the draw pipes for the stove fire.  Since the rooms are not ventilated naturally, we don't want the fire drawing air from the room directly.  2 pipes are installed, one routing to the left of the stove (just at the edge of the curved section of wall), the other routing back to the kitchen wall.  This allows 2 directions for air to get into the fire, preventing downdraft from the chimney into the fire if the wind direction isn't favorable.

Next is the installation of the Radon, and remaining pipes to sit in this floor level.

With the perspective drawing, I'll keep a set of photos taken from roughly the same perspective and it will be interesting to see the progress to that - so far we look like this