Marco and John came back this week to survey and mark the house corners on the footings. After that, the ICF folks started laying down the blocks, starting with the more complex parts of the layout. Here’s a couple of pictures showing what this looks like:

First row of ICF blocks is upAnother view of the blocks

 Rene came to visit for the weekend; we worked to take apart the formork for the footings. This was a pretty difficult job, having to pry and dig out the stakes. It took a whole day to completely dismantle the forms (this took Michel 3 weeks to build). Here’s all that’s left of the forms:

Lumber pile

Rene and I also installed most of the drain, covered it with gravel, and started leveling the crushed stone in the basement floor.