finishing the basement

Right now the basement is partially dug out. The foundation walls are in, but the rest of the basement needs to be finished. 

 Because we are working with sand, we couldn't dig down the 6 feet and 8 inches that we needed for a full basement, so the foundation walls are about 3 feet deep. We need to dig out the rest of the depth, but 3 - 4 feet in from the foundation wall we put in. Then we will build half walls. After those walls are finished, we will put in slabs that go from the top of the half walls to the bottom of the foundation walls.

 We will have a center area of the basement that will be the full depth of 6 feet 8 inches and it will be about 14 feet wide.  The north end of the basement, under the 11 foot addition we put on, will be closer to a "full" basement.

 This is what we are starting with.  It looks like this week we will get started with pouring footers for the half walls and laying block.