This morning, Jim and Bryan headed out to the land for the finishing touches on the footers. Jim put up all the support blocking and Bryan worked on filling in the gravel using the Bobcat.
Here's Jim making his final inspection - he goes over everything and makes sure all the ties are secure and everything is in place.
The happy crew before the concrete truck arrived!
Since we had such a good experience with the driver last time, we specifically requested him this time and were happy to see him show up again! Maybe having those donuts helped!
They started filling in the step area - which was unreachable with the truck. So that meant using wheelbarrows which is a lot of work. Brad, the driver, was great about slowly filling up the wheelbarrows though, which helped.
Bryan dumping a wheelbarrow full of concrete in the step area.
There wasn't much room to work in these footers either, which made things more difficult. Because the concrete was dumped in the corner, it all had to be pulled back to fill in the area.
Once the lower step was in good shape, they moved to the upper part of the footer and the first step.
In between, we all took turns vibrating the concrete to make sure there were no voids.
Once the step areas were done, the concrete truck was able to shoot the concrete into the footers which helped. However, these are really wide footers - combined with the tight space, it was still a lot of work.
Closing in on the end!
Then it's back to the beginning to get everything leveled off.
Poor Jim practically had to do the splits to finish the front footers!
Here's the tired crew after - just a little worse for the wear!
The footers turned out great!
Clean up time!
Cooling down with a little mist from the hose!
Wow - our footers are all done! It really is amazing to me that just last Friday we were looking at this view and admiring the first footer pour. It was a week of a lot of hard work.
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