Getting down to the foundation

Thursday would have been a great day to be an eagle soaring over the building site. All the big machinery, piles of midden soil, workers scurrying about, enormous septic tanks, visits from the "overseers", and then the discovery about the foundation... Jim summarizes it below-

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We did have a setback on the foundation. Engineering required that the waterside stem wall be cut out in four locations where the posts sit and additional reinforcing steel be embedded in the concrete. Also, three flood vents have to be installed in that wall so three more sections had to be cut out.  I had a concrete cutter come and cut the stem wall in those locations. When we pushed the sections over, I discovered that there was no rebar attaching the stem wall to the foundation. oops! 

 I removed all the stem wall from this length of wall and will drill and epoxy rebar into the foundation and pour the new stem with all of the required reinforcement for the steel columns and the flood vents.  ......should have a handle on the additional cost soon .'