I am shamelessly posting while at work (Hi Lew!) because I'm very excited about the pictures that Brian just emailed...we have a garage foundation! The big truck in the first picture showed up at 8am this morning, the foundation guys and the cool little Georgia buggy showed up shortly thereafter, and they proceeded to trundle a great deal of concrete from the front of the house to the back throughout the day. As long as the rain continues to hold off, they should be back tomorrow to build the stem wall and then it's officially onto the framing stage!
Just as an aside, the neighbor's fence does not usually look like it currently does (broken, leaning) - it's a casualty of the recent storm when a gigantic tree fell over and hit it. So on a normal day, and hopefully soon in the future, it will look like a regular (straight, non-broken) fence again. And then we will have to figure out how to squeeze between the 3 ft. gap between the fence and the garage to install the siding. Adventures await!
Interesting...your concrete went in very differently. Our crew used a cement truck and a pump hose and poured the concrete directly into our hole. It only took them about an hour to place all the concrete but then it took the finisher several hours to finish it to smooth. Our City required the footings to be 18" below depth so it took a ton of concrete.
ReplyDeleteI guess the pumper truck was more expensive so they used the little buggy. Not enough room to drive the truck back. I think we had 16 yards total.
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