Shhhhh... Be quite, Sharon is sleeping. Napcar is on...
She was a trooper today and did a great job of moving the wet concrete around and helping to screed. I could not have done it without her for sure
Anyway, things went pretty well. I was dismayed that the rental mixer could only handle two 80# bags at a time. After the first couple of pours I think we both thought "Wow, this is going to take forever!" But after a while, things started to go pretty well.
Ended up going through 95 bags, which I'm reckoning is around 7,600# of bagged mix I moved today. So it only cost 340$ for the slab. Next time, I'd be willing to double that and have it delivered.
It's an ugly slab, but it's flat and level, that much I know, and It will be a good base for the shed that's going on it.
I like todays timelapse better. Exposures are more even. The only problem is the camera battery died about 20 minutes right before the very end. Oh well. All you missed is me trying to 4 wheel Bubba up the hill right at the camera and failing the first attempt, then putting it into 2nd gear (4 wheel low) and getting some speed and barreling up at the camera...
I'm sure it'll be a cracked slab, but there's a double layer of rebar all the way around, and a couple of extra pieces across the front porch. At least the rattlers wont be able to get under it, nor will the wind be able to knock it down, like if I had it built on pier blocks...
Here's the video!
Pouring the slab
? Another lady said yea you need a driveway permit. I said since when? She said it started that day. She told me I was the second person in the county to need one. I was of course thrilled. Not only did I have to drop a c note to get one, but the codes guy had to come out and see if I could put it where I had planned.
