Well what an exciting week it has been. The weather was amazing all week, which meant that they were able to work rather quickly.

Monday morning started off with framing for the base floor. The base floor is to ensure an even playing field is set for the house. This base floor is called "Magerbeton" (I tried translating that with Google Translate and it just literally translated the word, which I'm sure is not the correct English word). It is similar to what they used to support the garage foundation, it's very coarse concrete. It did not take long to dry at all. The next step was to add a "blanket". This is to ensure that water will on come into the house from underneath or through the walls. Then those plastic half "tubing" things were added on top and then the steel support grids.

Tuesday morning started with the normal concrete coming. The concrete was poured into a bucket (red in the pictures) and then with the crane lowered to the basement, then they opened the hatch in the bottom and the concrete would pour out. And then repeat until there is enough to cover the whole floor. While the floor was drying, the guys prepared the wall supports. These are made of wood and aluminum; they needed to be built on site. Then the one side, the side that would be in contact with the concrete, was sprayed with oil. This would then allow the wall supports to be peeled away easier once the concrete has dried, similar to PAM when used for cooking. Before leaving for the day, the concrete had dried enough for the guys to set up the outer wall supports.

Wednesday I wasn't around to document, but they would have set up some metal supports, and placed the window frames in place, before adding the second inner support wall.

Thursday the concrete for the walls was poured in using the same process as with the floor. I found this much more interesting to watch. Afterword's steel rods where added into the wet concrete to add support.

Friday morning the wall supports were taken off and the window supports were taken out. Then they started with the insulation. The insulation is added to the outside of the building. It is an 18 cm foam, that they cut and add glue to on the one side and stick it onto the wall. Very different then in Canada! They weren't able to finish all the insulation on Friday so they will continue that again on Monday.

I am not sure with how quickly things typically progress here, but according to the building plan given to us from Albert the architect we are ½ week ahead of schedule, which is a good start to the build. The foreman in charge, Hans, said "it's always better to be ahead then behind", you can't complain with that logic, lol.

Looking forward to seeing what happens this week, thank you for reading.