This morning, I headed off to Home Depot to get some drain caps and the geo fabric.
Jim got busy taking down the supports for the garage door - look how amazing it looks! At this point, after 10 days, Jim said the concrete is over 70% of its strength which is enough to hold itself up. It looks so clean!
With the steel off, Jim was able to get the excavator into the building to start working on trenching a line for the plumbing.
Trench is dug from the corner where the utilities will come in to the outside wall. It was hard to cut a diagonal trench when he couldn't situation the excavator in the same position. But he made it work.
Then he brought up sand and put some in the bottom of the trench.
Because the code is goofy here about floor drains, at this point, Jim is just capping the provisions for the floor drain that we made. This is the inside...
...and the outside.
This is the fabric that is supposed to help keep dirt out of the gravel over the footer drains to keep them working properly. It's much thinner than we were expecting so hopefully it works!
Jim first had to carefully shovel dirt on top to make sure and keep the fabric in place.
Then he was able to dump dirt with the Bobcat and grade it out nicely.
Then it was time to connect the footer drains - it seems so long ago that we placed that drainpipe going out away from the building!
Continuing on with building up the area, bringing up gravel and dirt - the drain pipe trench is all filled in now!
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