First truck arrives
Starting the pour by filling in the porch footers so they can set up
starting the main slab - Chip and his son are the concrete pumpers
This first truck load was "hot" and started to harden much sooner than is good.
Nobody left to stand around and watch at this phase!
while the carpentry crew work on setting the footer drain in the back
It takes a lot of cement to do the wide part
Toby runs the vibrating float - while his brother uses the rake to fill in his footprints.
By the time we get to the last corner, the sun is coming out.
Backing out the door...
Footer concrete has set up enough to fill ICF wall. You can see what is inside the ICF blocks before they are filled - the line down the middle is rebar (steel), and there are vertical pieces of steel running down into the footer.
Set the bolts that are used to attach "top plate" board to the top of the wall
Pouring the porch slab but not all the way full because...
four trucks (= 28 cubic yards) have come and gone, and we need to evaulate how much more is needed. A call goes into Southern Concrete with the amount we need sent on the last truck. The porch slab is not completely filled as we wait 45 minutes for that last truck.
Meanwhile Toby supervises his Dad runing the floating machine to finish the surface
Porch floated, job done! Except for that pesky cleanup.
