Welcome back to the high ance home build. Today is the first day of concrete pour, so the tiny lab doesn't have a traditional foundation. This is my first experience seeing a concrete pour. We're gonna have some footage of that. I'm gonna tell you a lot of the things that I've learned about foundations, which is not necessarily what people will tell you. Just to get the record straight, number one, we're using forma drain as the forms. That is a lot what this is going to be about because all the extra steps that we took on the footings were because of this special process that we wanted to use, the forma drain process. I also want to make it clear that I really like my contractor, my foundation contractor. I really lucked out. He is very accommodating. He will do whatever I want. But like any contractor, like any thinking person, he will first say, "Are you sure that's what you want?" because, uh, these are the reasons that we'd normally do it another way and you need to be putting up with it. What I've learned time and again is if I'm not on-site advocating for myself and making sure that things happen exactly the way that I want them to, that it's just not going to happen. So if you are not your own general contractor because, in my opinion, you, the owner of the property, have the most interest in making sure that this thing works exactly the way that you wanted to, if you're a nerd like me and you really want to tune the invisible dynamics, you got to get all invisible right first. You need to have somebody there to advocate for you if you can't be there. So I'm taking a year...
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