yea!!!! concrete

Monday the termite guy came and sprayed all around where the concrete slab is going to be. Our concrete guy, came back and placed the vapor barrier, wire, and finished forming the garage. By one o'clock Monday afternoon. We had been inspected and we were ready to pour the concrete on Tuesday morning.

Tuesday morning at five o'clock Mike and I went over to the house and Duck, the concrete guy, was already there with his crew. At 5:35am. The first concrete truck showed up and began the pour using a powered Georgia buggy. By noon, all the concrete was poured and the troweling was well in progress. These guys really knew what they were doing as a slab turned out really, really nice.

Mike and the AC pad

Mike wet down the slab last night and I wet it down again this morning. We don't want the concrete to dry too quickly as it will crack. There are some low spots but nothing that can't be filled with a little thin set and/or padding for the carpet.

The crew from Blitz is scheduled to return tomorrow morning and continue on the frame of the cottage. They will move the posts out about a foot for the porch and frame the porch. We expect that they will be completely done with this project, for their part, by Saturday. This crew work 12 hour days and work so well together that we expect they will be done by Saturday evening. The project manager is expected to be here sometime during this period to follow up.

While the Blitz group is here, they're going to do modifications to the barn. They are adding 4 skylights and  ridge vents and also fixing all of the leaks in the roof. Blitz doesn't advertise this, but they offer lifetime warranties on all of their buildings.

It surely is hot here. 80° at eight o'clock. I went over to the barn and clean the stalls. Then weeded around the fence line of both the East and West pastures. I wasn't sure if electric fence was working but I accidentally touched the ground wire and one of the hot wires and I felt a sharp tingle. It's workingggggg.

Tata for now.