It's really warm today and I felt so bad for Jim when I got to the land at lunch - welding in 90 degree temps is not fun. Plus, it's warm enough that you want sleeveless shirts but that's not good with sparks flying from welding. He looked very happy to see all the water I brought.
But the welds and ties are looking really good.
After lunch, we went to work in the ground floor to give Jim a break from the heat of the day. Of course, since all of this work involves shoveling and moving rocks around, it wasn't quite a break!
Jim had to get more fine gravel and since we have the plywood up over the openings, he had to dump it over them!
Compacting the area...
With a little more hand shoveling for good measure!
But by the time we quit this job, we have more than half done and it looks amazing!
I went home a little before the concrete contractor was expected to arrive so that Jim could talk business with him. He seems to really like him and thinks it will be a great fit. They talked over everything in detail - from what Jim was displeased about with the deck slab to what he needs for this one. He's supposed to drop off a quote in a couple days so we'll see how his pricing is. Since he has a day job doing concrete, our job will have to be on Saturday which means more expensive concrete, but that's okay if all goes well.
After the contractor left, Jim went back to welding and got quite a bit done - I'll be anxious to see it tomorrow. But he's glad to be home - even though there's no air conditioning in our upstairs apartment, it's always good to be home after a long, hot day!
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