Footings Phase 2

Roger and Justin needed to do some touch up work on 2 of the columns and make the middle of the house nice and clean. Justin and Laura came over early Saturday (8/23/08). Laura and I went and ran and Roger & Justin finished cleaning up the footings. First of all there were chucks of dirt from the center of the house. 2 of the columns were out of align when Roger squared up the house, so Roger and Justin had to hand dig out more room in the column holes. While they were doing that Laura and I went to Lowes to pick up bags of concrete. We got back and then we mixed them with water and Roger and Justin finished filling up the holes and made the column holes right.

Footings phase 1

The footings went great! Orville (Sam's uncle) brought his back-hoe and dump truck on Monday. Roger loves it because Orville likes to start early, he was here by 7:00 AM; definately a great start under Roger's terms. I was gone to work by the time Orville got here the first day, so I still did not get to meet him yet. Anyway, I spoke to Roger at lunch and he said things were going great. Instead of digging down to lower they decided to build up the low spot. The had to go to the back by the building and bring up extra dirt to really stack up the pool side of the house. It was a lot easier and cheaper (all good with me)! So I got home that night and it was a big flat spot of dirt - Roger was very happy with the work. Of course Vegas and Bob helped all day - and all passed out and peaceful that night. On Tuesday, Orville was early again and I was still here so I got to meet him. Today was the big day; inspection, digging and pouring the footings. Roger, Orville, and Sam got the footings dug by mid-morning and the inspector was here by lunch and said it is APPROVED! Next the concrete guy came and poured the footings. I finally know what a footing is now -- it is the base of where an ouside wall or column will be setting on. Mom was here all day taking pictures and keeping everyone amused. She played with the animals and learned everything there is to know about footings and what guys do at a construction site all day.