Saturday, September 26, 2009

Porch Footings…Day 2

Saturday morning brought blue skies and dry weather. Matt Sletten and Paul Winters decided to pour the front porch footings by hand today after getting rained out yesterday. The original plan had the first half of the basement floor and the porch footings being poured together this morning but getting a cement truck close to the basement is going to be tough until things dry out and everyone wants to keep the framing moving forward. The first two photos show some of the 120 bags of cement Matt staged beside the holes dug for the footings. They started mixing and shoveling about 1:00 pm…

Sam and I stopped by at 6:00 just as Paul and Matt were cleaning up after pouring the eight footings for the front porch. The next photos show (first) a close up of one the bigger footings and (second) a long shot with all eight just barely visible. The muddy conditions made the mixing and pouring operation even more difficult…The whole operation had a bit of an ancient Egyptian feel to it!

1 comments:

Camille said...

Tweety. You have got to stop posting everyday okay?! Cause like i said i am going to have way more posts than you! And you have 143 and i have not that many... so im gonna be blogging liuke 20 times a day.. and you better stop it so much. Cause i am going to beat you!