The Pour part deux

First couple of pickup trucks arrived around 7:30ish.  They carried workers hauling trailers loaded with the hand held floats and power floats that are used to make the surface of the slab nice and smooth.  Not slick smooth, that comes after its stained which is away down the road. 

The workers needed to finish putting up the drip ledge for the rock that will be installed on the bottom 3-4ft. of the walls.  The outside wall siding is something called Corten steel.  It's a steel that has a thin coating of something on it that rusts.  But it only goes so far and stops.  So in a matter of a couple of weeks you have a building that looks like it has been in place for years.  

So it will look similar to this but we will have red sandstone that comes up to and a little above the bottoms of the windows.  Bob and I think its aesthetically pleasing and looks like it belongs in the country setting.  IN OUR OPINION people build houses that dont look like they belong in the environment in which they are built, rather they looked like they are dropped from the sky and landed.  I understand you like what you like but building to suit your surroundings makes much more sense to both of us.  

There were a total of six trucks that carry 10 yards apiece and they used every bit..there was almost zero amount of waste...that's what a great GC will be able to do.  That way you get every bit that you need but not anymore that you dont and still have to pay for.  

That yellow box on the tripod stand is a laser level.  Once they get a fairly large area covered in concrete a guy has the corresponding unit on a stick.  He places the stick on top of the concrete and used a small handheld float to read whether he is high or low.  He continues to add or take away concrete from about a foot by 1 foot area until he gets it exactly correct and then mark's it with an X.  They use this area to level the concrete in an area.  This goes on all over the slab until they are finished and the slab is level in its entirety.  

If you blow up this picture and look at the guy in the plaid shirt you will see the corresponding laser unit on a stick.

You can see the guy in the foreground using a power float and further back a bull float.  

Here's the finished slab.  Typically it " cures" for a couple of days.  Our framing steel doesn't arrive till next week sometime so I dont think there will be any work going on till then if our GC has things scheduled correctly.  That's all till the next update.