Not an April Fool's joke, ha.
Last week, we were supposed to have a surprise...our foundation pour. It was on the schedule but tentative because of the chance of rain.
Well it rained.
A lot.
The driveway held up BUT the side was just too flooded. The concrete company was worried that if they had a driveway issue or a truck stopped and they had to drive off to the side, they would get stuck.
Yeah, see the above, that was a fair point. As the builder said, this was the first rain since they put it in, so they needed to figure out and find any problem areas/soft spots that might still exist.
The culverts did their job by flowing water under the driveway instead of over it but, as the building superintendent said, "it's just as flat as flat gets".
All this digging is going to change my mowing pathways but we're looking into a lot of clearing later on so I won't worry too much about that right now.
On the plus side...
...we got an upgrade on the driveway/road!
They decided to improve on what they had already done. So, they added more lime, more soil to build it up a bit more and make it even more firm and then they topped it with crushed concrete and gravel. It looks even better now than it did before. They are not worried about the driveway though...on the day of the pour, there will be 14-15 trucks each weighing 85,000 lbs plus the pump truck which is another 60,000-80,000 lbs. That means there will be a total of 1,145,000 lbs on the driveway!
It's not going anywhere now!
We asked if there was an option we had and he said that maybe after we move in, we might want to run a ditch alongside the driveway all the way to the front of the property/road. Our house sits at the high end of the entire property.
Now fingers crossed for dry weather.
As the old saying goes:
"You can't rush forever"
