Foundation Day

Today is the perfect day for pouring the foundation for our new home.  Sunny, warm and dry! Setting the foundation is quite a benchmark in our building process!  The number of workmen on the site is up to 15 with one woman working the cement truck.  The big orange cement truck is spinning and spewing out yards of concrete.  Each truck carries about 9 yards of material.  Since our foundation requires  30 yards, we shall see nearly four truckloads on the site today.  Noisy, crowded, smelly (stinky exhaust of the operating cement truck)!

Men at Work













Woman at Work

Back to Building

Our two week hiatus away from building our home, sweet home,  was a study in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.  Those weeks included ten days on Maui...Bo passing a kidney stone...and a vigorous bout of 24 hour stomach flu.  So good to be back to building!

This morning Bo and I woke up to the arrival of 8 workmen, a large flatbed truck delivering rebar and lumber, and a dump truck with several loads of gravel, plus the ubiquitous bulldozer/back hoe. The day progresses with dust and noise...mainly the sounds of hammering and shoveling, but also the high pitched whine of power saws cutting lumber. When any of the above noises are not cutting the silence, there is still the continuous chirpy melody of the Mexican tunes on the radio. Ay ya ya yai!!

Front Door Delivery

Overview of the building site.

Living on the Edge

Living on the edge of a building site provides an education in many areas.  Learning about construction machinery is one of those areas.  The machines that have visited our job site so far have been uniformly noisy, dirty and smelly.  I have recognized the ubiquitous bull dozer, back hoe, wood chipper and today a new one,  the compactor.  This machine is used to compact the soil before the foundation is dug.

Unloading the compactor.
Of course it takes big trucks and trailers to take these machines to and from our site daily.  It all adds up to a lot of commotion.  I'm not complaining... just saying!
So how close are we to the job site.  Take a gander.

Living on the edge!!

The Boss

We are please to have the awesome contractor, Joel Boisvert, of JMB Construction to head our ADU project.  Here is a photo of  John and Joel clinching the deal.  Luckily, they both look very happy !

 

Joel has even considered hiring Bo to the work crew!  

 Straw Boss Bo!

Everything goes!

The first days of our home building project have been exciting and noisy with lots of coming and going of big trucks and bull dozers.  The first step is the demo (which is short for demolition).  Basically everything goes!  The yard is scrapped free of all vegetation, including trees. Goodbye pine tree.

We went from this RV site:

 to building site.

(My bird friends who come regularly to my feeder for breakfast must be wondering wtf!)