Building on a good Foundation…
Today we got the first of two concrete pours done, for the house foundation. The guys who have been working this job have been great, they really went to town on this job, getting it done faster than we thought possible.
Lois is baking them pies and brownies, which may have helped. It sure helps me.
I have video of the pour, but stupidly forgot my still camera. Oh well, the video is good enough. I’ll edit and post it next week.
This is getting pretty exciting, stuff is finally happening! Now we just have to bust our buns for 6 more months doing what we can and deciding on things as rapidly as possible. Kind of playing catchup on that, as we ran behind with the packing and moving stuff, and consequently the demo. We finally had to hire a few guys to accelerate that process.
Fun fun fun, we’re looking at concrete products for the bathroom floor. Hoping to do something elegant/tasteful, and yet unique and artful.
It’s also complicated by the radiant heating we’re putting in the bathroom, but as soon as we have the slab math worked out we’ll be okay.
Hopefully we’ll get a lot of demo done this weekend, but I suspect we’ll have to hire somebody again to finish it. We can do it, but we can’t hold things up or we just end up costing ourselves more. Lots of dependencies involved, more so that I originally thought.
But things are going well so far, very exciting indeed!
