We passed our underground inspections!

Major drainage - connected up to our sewer line out

Footing with rebar - see the shiny copper wire down near the bottom?
That's the grounding wire.  It has to run all along one of our new footings,
and then it needs to be connected to our electrical panel in one continuous wire.
God bless the building inspector for mentioning this before we poured the concrete!

Forms and rebar all ready for concrete pour tomorrow!

As our contractor put it, "San Francisco very difficult inspections."  But we did it!  Yesterday we passed underground electrical inspection (for a grounding rod and wire that runs along the rebar in the footings), and today we passed underground plumbing inspection (for the footing and surface drains that run from the backyard through the footings to the lower garage).  We are thrilled to have this milestone behind us - this underground stuff was the sticky wicket!

Tomorrow is our first concrete pour for the footings.  (Second will be for the slab.)  Forward, harch!