Pouring the Footers

The Wall Company used a large cement pumper to pour the cement into the footers.  It probably took only a half hour with 7 dump trucks to compete the whole pour.  Quite an efficient operation.

Forms for Footers

With the dig for the footers complete, the next step was to create forms and setup rebar to hold the cement for the stem wall footers.  Behind the footers is another example of why we needed a hard dig.  The footers step down and zig-zag back and forth down to the bottom of the driveway.  The foreman at the Wall Company said he was very impressed with the footer design: having a lot of turns in the footers makes the entire structure much more stable, as compared to just two long straight footers with only one 90-degree turn in the corner.