Stem Wall Forms

With the footers poured and cured for a few days, the Wall Company came back and erected the forms for the stem walls.  The walls were quite impressive, with some of the taller ones coming in at over 12 feet tall.  Eventually, they will be backfilled, but nonetheless, it was quite an impressive structure.

View of Rebar Inside the Stem Wall Forms

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.