Still Up

Thursday the bolts that allow the wall to be attached to the foundation had the concrete cleaned off them. You can see the bolts are shiny now.
We also had a surveyor put an elevation on top of the foundation. The elevation of the foundation at the x under the flagging is 416.56 feet. The baseline flood elevation (BFE) is 422.5 feet. We need to be three feet above BFE. Our contractor is verifying what needs to be three feet above the BFE. It is either the floor or the duct work. This decision will determine the size of our walls.
These elevations seem small since I grew up in Colorado.
One of our neighbors has joined us on Jenga stacks. This is a view of that house from our kitchen window. When I look out I feel like I am living in a tree house.

Smoothing the concrete

We had someone smoothing out the concrete so they can put a wall on it. The right side is a smoothed concrete where they will put a wall. The left side is a doorway that hasn't been smoothed so you can see the difference. The tool he was using tripped a circuit breaker. He had to get a latter to get to the circuit breaker box.

Putting the dirt back

They have been finishing removing the forms and filling in dirt around the new foundation for the past couple of days. The dirt piles in our yard are disappearing.