You remeshin' with me?

Remember how I said yesterday that the rest of the materials were scheduled to arrive this morning? Well, apparently "morning" means any time before noon, which actually turned into 1PM before anything arrived!!!!So the Roth guys were hanging around for 4 hours this morning with nothing to do. I find this totally inexcusable, but I wasn't there to lay down the law (luckily for the delivery guy). Anyways, once the materials finally showed up, the Roth guys got to work and were able to complete laying the pex tubing today. They also connected all the tubes to a manifold, pressure tested them, and left them pressurized.

The living areas are now complete.

This is the manifold which will live in the utility room - pretty crazy, huh?

All done!

We then laid out plastic over the garage area, both to act as a vapor barrier and to prevent the concrete from seeping into the gravel too much when we get the slab poured. We used scrap pieces of plastic - whatever was left over from wrapping the footer foam, empty trash bags, plastic wrapping from large appliances, and my old original Wham-O Slip n Slide from when I was a kid (*sniff.... I shed a little tear for that one. All in the name of recycling!).

My dad got a head start on laying steel remesh by starting on the end that already had the pex tubing all done and working in tandem with the Roth guys. Once Matt and I showed up after work we helped with the rest.

This was a pretty easy task, but it still ended up more complicated than I imagined. We made sure to bend up the sharp ends of the steel so that when it was laid down there was no chance of puncturing any of the pex lines. Each of the pieces of remesh then had to be tied together with zip ties (which then had to have their ends trimmed off). Also, there was a bunch of cutting that needed to be done so that remesh could be laid around the drains and plumbing. Overall this wasn't difficult, but it was a bit tedious. We managed to get it done pretty quickly, at least.

All ready for a slab!

Tomorrow our mason is scheduled to stop by to check in on our progress and look it over, and we will get the slab pour scheduled. The weather is looking really fantastic for the rest of this week (0-10% chance of rain each day), so we're hoping to get him scheduled right away! Unfortunately I am concerned that this might be too short notice, especially with the back log of work I'm sure he is dealing with. We'll see.  

Updated budget:

+ $373.65 for 47 steel remesh sheets
TOTAL SPENT SO FAR: $47,047.45