Late morning, we took the truck into Lowe's to pick up some Styrofoam board - Jim plans on using this now to keep the footers insulated over the winter and we'll use them later on too.
Once we got back, we concentrated on putting up the waterproofing membrane. I had worked yesterday on scraping cement off this back area - this corner had a lot of spills since it was a tough corner to fill with concrete. But it was back in the little ditch to do the bottom part of the wall.
Drumroll please...here's Jim putting up the very last piece of membrane on the walls!
Just a look down the back wall with all the waterproofing finished - the wall looks so amazingly flat and straight!
No time to rest on our laurels, it was time to move on to dimple board. We started on the longest section - these pieces were 9 feet so they were kind of hard to manage - especially going around corners and having to be up on the ladder.
Once we got two pieces up, we needed to fill up the bottoms with gravel to keep them in place. It's really important to make sure that no gravel gets behind the dimple board to damage the membrane - so typically, I have to hold the bottom down while Jim shovels gravel in place until it's stable on its own.
So it was back to taking turns filling up the buckets...
...and dumping them next to the wall.
We were really happy again today with our progress!
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