Picture heavy post ahead!
Saturday, when we posted about the weekend, I said there was a good thing on the horizon. A couple of you picked up on that...a hidden thing in the photo...
Here it is zoomed in:
You see that? That's the "good thing on the horizon" we mentioned, ha. It arrived about 6:30am on Friday morning while it was still dark. But what is it?
Behold!
The pump truck for the concrete that would fill our foundation!
Yep! The concrete mixer trucks arrived and they lined up on the road out front and then, one at a time, they came down the driveway. After each trip up and down, a skid steer went up and down the driveway to keep things smoothed out.
The pump truck pulls it from the mixer and then the boom lets them direct it right to where they want it to go. Remember, our beams were 4 feet deep so that's a LOT of concrete.
They worked through sunrise and into the early morning. They start in the dark when it's cooler because that is good for the concrete.
They started filling at the farthest back corner of the house from where they parked (the master bedroom) and worked toward the other front corner closest to the equipment (the garage and front porch).
Got there about 9:30am. This was the view driving in.
Since they started before sunrise...
...by 9:30, they were almost done!
Here, they are pouring the front porch.
They worked hard getting it all smoothed out.
This was one of the last trucks...we loved the little saying on the back end!
And then they were done!
Fourteen concrete trucks later...
We.
Have.
A.
Slab!
The next post, we'll have some slab pics from when 2nd Man and I went out and roamed around by ourselves to walk on our foundation for the first time.
OH MY GOSH that's so exciting. It's huge too, I can see the garage and the porches.
ReplyDeleteYou have a foundation to build your dreams on! --Janie V
How exciting it must have been for you seeing your foundation being poured.
ReplyDeleteNext up; the truck loads of lumber arriving.
Have a great day and enjoy your evening
How happy you must be that all went well and that your dream is becoming a reality. Not to be difficult, concrete does not "dry" it "cures" which it does even while under water. We await further developments! Roderick
ReplyDeleteExciting!
ReplyDeleteI remember when we had one of those trucks when we poured our foundation...very cool from the video-game looking controller (except much larger and more buttons and levers), the way it unfolded and folded back up, to the squishy foam ball they used to clean it out when done. And the near-ballet moves and timing of trucks coming and going.
How many critter tracks got left in your floor before it cured enough to not leave prints? And did both of you leave initials and date in the wet concrete somewhere?
I am excited for you both and really enjoying the step by step account of the process. Happy Easter. Carol (Australia)
ReplyDeleteWonderful!
ReplyDeletethis is very exciting! it's a good distraction from everything else that is going on right now. i wish i had one!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting for you two. I feel like I am right there watching the whole think, your pictures and words just bring me right into the action, thanks. I had my roof replaced and the guys were so well organized they started tearing off the old one at 8 am and were cleaning up at 2 pm. This was from the hurricane in Oct. 24. I still have some damage to take care of but finding the right people to do these things is hard.
ReplyDeleteI was one of the ones that noticed, I looked at the picture first & I thought that looked ike a pump truck and you said something good is on the horizon. Happy for you guys. - Nathan
ReplyDeleteThis is so exciting! I am so happy for y’all! The dream begins!
ReplyDeleteAs all out houses have basements up in Minnesota ( well 99%)I was surprised but of course shouldn't have been how your foundation looked. Progress is exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe excitement mounts!
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