foundation pictures

In the first few pictures you can see the foundation- fully formed and curing.  This first picture is from the back western side of the house facing towards the front. The "box" in the back is going to be filled and a slab put on top.  The front box will be a crawl space.

In the picture below you can see a couple of things: First you can clearly see the two "boxes" the one on the right is the crawlspace, the one on the left will be the slab area.  Secondly, you can see the black weatherproofing that is going around the exterior of the crawlspace.  You can "dampproof" but due to the high water table in our area, we went with waterproofing instead.

In the pictures above and below you can see the second part of the foundation preparation, the insulation.  We are using 2inch rigid foam board with an R rating of 10.  I am going to use the excess board to line the outer perimeter of the slab box to increase insulation.

The next step is to loosely back fill the outside part of the foundation, then fill in the garage and slab box, compact and grade.

Thanks for reading.