Friday, April 13th, 2018…… Friday the 13th – oooh,
scary! Today I wanted to work on the
bbq, but I got an early text from Dana that one of the concrete guys (probably
the foreman) was coming over to look at the jobsite and his access for his
trucks. Turns out he had already come in
and saw the access and then left before I went outside. She and Dana said they would be over later
this morning to check out everything. They have all been looking at the weather
and determined that they have a large window tomorrow so they should be able to
get everything done and covered before the rains come in. Needless to say,
we’re excited! I looked it up and it was the middle of February when they did
the last work out there! Later, Penny
came over. She and Lydia wanted to go
out to Casa De Reyes for dinner and she drove.
We had a nice meal but I paid for it later. I ended up with acid reflux
and couldn’t sleep most of the night. I
had to get up early tomorrow so this wasn’t good!
Saturday, April 14th, 2018…… Cement
Day! I didn’t fall asleep until about 2:30am so it was hard to get up and going
this morning. But I had to – so I was out and going before 6:00am. I needed to
move the rv out of the driveway. I
parked it out on the road and down in the cul-de-sac. I also had to get my truck out there as well
because the other trucks would pin it in if I left it in the shop. Tim &
Dana showed up around 6:15am. The pumper showed up at 6:30am and got in
position. He got his hoses out and set
up to be ready by the time the cement truck backed in. He had an issue with one
of the hoses which was clogged from cement from a previous job. He swapped it out and they got going with the
pour right at 7:00am. The job went along with no other problems. The first of
the cement trucks wasted no time in dumping into the hopper of the pump
truck. They had seven guys working the
site which made the job look easy but I did cement work for one of my dad’s
buddy’s business when I was in high school.
It’s not easy! They used three trucks for the entire pour and the last
of the trucks was done by 9:00am. Most of
the crew left shortly after that. The cement needed some time to cure and then
the guys staying went to work floating it out and making it as smooth as
possible. Garage floors are smooth for
sweeping. The approach pad and the rv
pad next to the garage will be broom swept for traction, but that’s last on the
schedule. Tim and Dana and the guys stayed until everything looked good. That
was about 3:00pm. It wasn’t a long day
but a good one, and now that that part is done, the job will get going. Tim said on Monday he will pull the forms and
set the rain drains and get them hooked up. After that is backfilled, they can
start the framing. We watched and I took pics
but stayed out
of the way most of the day. But I
couldn’t wait to come in and relax and have dinner and watch tv. We had spaghetti while catching up on a
couple of episodes of Guys Grocery Games.
I ended up going to bed early. I
needed to catch up on my sleep!
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