There she blows!

Pour days are always tenser and more chaotic then any other day. There is so much time spent in anticipation and preparation. Then we have to schedule the special inspector, the pump truck and the concrete deliveries. So much is out of our control. And in the end, right or wrong, concrete is permanent.

We got off to a bad start. the special inspector was not aware of the need to inspect the rebar. Then our designated pump truck was delayed because the job it was doing earlier was delayed because of problems with a concrete supplier out of Cle Elum. Pump trucks are not a dime a dozen.

With the crew focused on pouring, it is hard to repurpose the guys onto other projects while waiting. So we wait. A half hour rolls into a full hour. The first hour rolls into the second. Pretty soon we are looking at the effect on the end of the day.

So we cancelled the pour. Then a pump truck came available. So we hurriedly qued it all back up. But now it had to go perfect to get five truck loads done by 5.

Perfection was not in the cards. Two blowouts and a mostly fault pump kept everybody hopping like mad. And left quite a clean up job at the end of a long day.

But we got it done. And so this week we start up again. One more partial wall pour. Three roof pours. And a driveway pour. With winter looming.

Steve