Monday, the concrete was poured for the foundation of the shop and the stairs. As you can tell in some of the pics, we had many "inspectors" of the work: Cameron watched the concrete truck from the fort, Levi & Micah pulled up chairs to watch the finishers work under the carport, Craig asked PawPaw to come check it out too! Levi was very complimentary of their work. He kept telling them they were doing a great job!
We knew that there wasn't going to be alot done on the actual addition this week so we decided to let my dad's employer bid on putting in a limestone driveway and filling in our front ditch. Tuesday, my dad brought the pipes for the ditch and started work on the driveway. About half of the driveway was finished when he left that day.
The boys got to help spray the concrete to help it cure.
Wednesday, my dad & his crew came back to finish the driveway and to lay the pipe in the ditches.
Thursday, my dad came back and packed down the limestone. You can see the big turn around area on the side of our barn. Now we have a place to park our vehicles while they are doing the construction project. His crew also broke up a concrete pad that the previous owner had made for a dog pin. (Craig is thinking of adding a garden right...like he needs another project right now!) Our general contractor had one of his laborers come out and fix part of the concrete that wasn’t done correctly. This guy also remove the canopy over our side door and the all of the outside light fixtures. After work, my dad & Craig got to work on the catch basins. They just added the concrete around the pipes.
Friday afternoon, the framing materials were delivered.
Bright and early Saturday morning, the laborer came to take part of our patio cover to give the framers more room to work. Saturday afternoon, my dad & Craig attempted to build the catch basins, but the weather didn't cooperate. They were only able to get one completed.
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Wow. That's a lot of stuff going on. We need to come down soon to see all the progress!
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