Overall: focused on the goal of concrete slabs being placed and finished on Saturday
Monday: installing rebar in the house and shop.
Tuesday: more rebar being installed in the house and shop. Believe I am saving $$$ doing it myself (or so I keep telling myself)
Wednesday: wait. what ? deja vu – installing rebar… can see the end of this task is near – will finish up tomorrow morning
Thursday: finally finished installing and tieing rebar. got started bulding forms for each of the doorways in the shop and house.
Friday: completed formwork, then spent time checking and re-checking all of our prep work in anticipation of pouring concrete tomorrow. Concrete shooting out of the hose on a pumping truck is akin to a firehose – so need to be certain nothing is loose and would be jarred or torn away creating a calamity.
Saturday: Was the last person to arrive at the site at 5AM. The crew and the pump truck were already in place and ready to work. The bright floodlights on the extended boom of the concrete pump illuminated the site like the field of dreams movie with the ballpark lights on. First concrete arrived around 5:45. A couple separate factors combined to prevent getting both slabs done in one day. That was fine with me – I’m more interested in surface finish quality than having both slabs completed in one day. House slab is scheduled for Tuesday.
Sunday: The surface finish quality on the shop concrete floor is outstanding. We saw cut the slab into large sections to promote any cracks that appear will follow the saw cuts. Spent the rest of the day marking up a floor plan drawing with window rough opening values.
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