got it all dug out work needs to be basically all you do to explain this step we started at the bottom corner down there and strung a line up to the first step to eight inches that's how deep the footer is going to be then we came up from the top of that first step eight inches off that stake and pulled another line and so on and so forth so it's a pretty simple process making sure the line is level all the time once the concrete gets poured in and we finish troweling it down and and making sure it's right then we'll come back and just pull all these stakes and boards out and we'll trial it again there is going to be one step in this front trench that we still have to do this morning but the guys are supposed to be here about noon which is in about an hour and then the concrete trucks supposed to be here about 2:00 so we'll have plenty of time to do that we hop across this trench so yeah it's coming along we should have a concrete footer today finally I ordered the concrete blocks and they'll be here Oh next week sometime I imagine we also strung the line that's level across this backside from from that side down there eight inches it's about ten inches down here but that's okay this this trench is 30 by 60 and just to give you kind of an idea it's taken about Oh seven and three-quarter yards so it's seven hundred and seventy-five dollars for the three thousand psi concrete so it's really not that much it is it is a lot for me but you know under a thousand dollars for your footing is not bad well under a thousand here's our other steps now there's four steps on this side there's only three on the other side but same deal on this side started at the bottom strung a level line we should be ready for the concrete you the all righty we are done pouring the footers got the rebar in basically all we did was establish a square line that way and then that way squared up the other two sides so it's perfectly square and then came in two inches from our line all the way around and stuck the rebar eight feet apart also there's two courses of rebar in the footer all the way around so we should be ready to start laying block as soon as the block comes in it's supposed to be in this next week so we should be moving right along we did or we were able to uncover the septic tank that used to be here they my father-in-law made the septic tank out of cinder blocks it's about ten foot deep and ten foot wide there's our steps I'll pull them boards off in the next day or two you here's my trench to the septic tank septic tank was down about 20 inches whew septic II yeah you can kind of see the concrete blocks there so we'll be using that you better put the cover back on it there's the old pipe now this actually runs that down there is downhill from this but the house is going to be up so far in the back that we'll have a good drop all the way to there what you want is at least a quarter an inch well not at least you want right at a quarter of an inch per foot of drop in a drain line that doesn't just go for sewer it goes for all drain lines but I'm pretty happy with the way the footer turned out we'll come back when it's time to lay some blocks you