Construction Update #14

I think I will number the updates, but not count the days. It has been many days since the last update. Our first choice for doing the flatwork suffered a broken leg. Our second choice is pictured here.

The boom truck was too small to reach from the top. What the heck, just drive it down to the front. It felt pretty sketchy to me, but all four concrete trucks navigated the slope and the boom truck creeped out when done. Whew. I can’t imaging the repercussions if we tipped something into the Icicle River.

One way to do the coloring is to pour gray, then come back and do an acid wash of color. Another way is to put color into the concrete while it is still in the truck and spin it through and through. Still another way is to ‘cast’ it on top of wet mud and then trowel it in. each concrete guy has is favorite way to do it. And all the reasons why not to do it the other way. So we casted the color. A collage effect of earth tones.

It will show through better after the floor cures.

Next update should show the walls going up

Steve