Something neat I didn’t know about footers, likely because I’ve never built a house before, is that they can look really sloppy. If you know me, you know that I’m a bit of a neat freak and I don’t do well with chaos and disorganization and things that aren’t straight/even.
So imagine my (internal) anxiety-fueled meltdown when I realized that some of our footers are literally just trenches in the ground that have concrete poured into them.
To be fair, some of them were nicely framed with straight, parallel boards and crisp 90-degree angles.
But the back of the house looks like complete chaos.
To be clear: I know this is just going to serve as the base for the foundation block. No one but us will ever see this and its appearance is totally inconsequential. I was just not expecting something so… messy. lol
House of Hyperbole 