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.

House moves on.....slowly

Things have slowed down with the house since the middle of last week. It seems that the framing crew for the house can't seem to figure out the angle of the porch roof.
The crew also doesn't seem to be working off of the plans that were drawn, and so the porch is also a foot narrower than it should be. The construction manager from Blitz came down on Tuesday and told us that the porch would be fixed.

The plumbers arrived on Monday but were surprised to find the house was up. They came prepared to do the rough in plumbing with the trackhoe. They refused to hand dig for the rough-in, so they just left for the day.
Mike called plumbing company and was told that a crew would be sent out Tuesday to hand dig and do the rough in plumbing. That part is done and inspected and we are ready for the concrete guy to come back and fill in the plumbing trenches get ready to pour the concrete.
We had planned to pour concrete early this week, but with the plumbing delay and the holiday we now plan to pour concrete on Tuesday morning. Hopefully by the end of the week, the Blitz construction crew will be back to finish the shell.
We have the windows and doors on site and they will be installed by the construction crew.
When all of that is done Mike and I can start the framing on the inside.

Rough in plumbing completed

Brenda has now finally found a part-time job. It will surely help and give her something to do. She will be working for Scrubtastic, and as the name implies, she will be selling scrubs. Her initial schedule for the month of July is for 15 hours a week. She said the young man that hired her was really impressed with her, especially since she made the effort to come back as a follow-up.

Brenda went to the Bartlett fireworks show last night and met some family and friends from church. I didn't go because I had worked all day yesterday and was too tired. I was in bed before 8:30 PM.
If the show was as good as it was last year. I'm sure she had a good time.

I will continue to keep you informed as the house and Brenda's job progresses.

Tata for now.