Monday and Tuesday all in one

Monday (yesterday) was a successful day, despite the weather conditions.  At least the rain held off until late afternoon, so the master bedroom/bathroom concrete floor was poured without any problems.  The wind was very strong and lots of dust was flying all over the place.


While waiting for the concrete trucks to arrive, the guys got busy working.  The garage floor continued to be jack hammered, an outside trench was dug in the front yard and the other walls in the radio room had the wall board put up.

Chris and Tony continue to jack hammer in the garage

Johnny digs a trench in the front yard

Pipes for cable TV, internet and telephone are placed in the trench

The trench is covered back up

Luis marks an area to be cut out of the wall board

Finished walls in radio room

First load of concrete is poured

Luis and Tony spread out the first load of concrete

John Sr. spreads out the concrete as Tony and Luis use a baton to make it smooth

The second load of concrete arrives

The second load of concrete is poured and spread out

Tony and Luis smooth out the second load of concrete

Tony and John Sr. deep in concrete

Last load of concrete is poured and spread out

Tony and Luis float the concrete

The concrete floor is completed

Troy stopped by, last night, and added the last piece of 3-inch PVC pipe for my antenna cables.  This particular piece of pipe did not want to cooperate and it took quite awhile to finally get it in place.  It had to have a 90 degree bend to get it through the outside wall, which made it difficult.


He also finished putting flex conduit in the two remaining walls of the downstairs bedroom.  They had to both be cut off in the middle section of the wall because that section will continue to be open until I move all of my furniture, radio equipment, etc., into the new rooms.  Then, the conduit can be joined and the wall board put in place on both sides of the separating wall.




Today (Tuesday), only Chris and Johnny showed up in the morning and brought over some more block and wall board.  The block was placed on the new concrete floor to allow easy access while the master bedroom/bathroom walls are being built.

Unloading the block off the truck

Placing the block on the concrete floor

Johnny and Chris move the block for easy access

6.5 pallets of concrete block are ready for building

The guys finished up at the end of the morning and I guess I'll see them back here tomorrow. This evening, Troy should be back and we'll run wires to the panel box from the remaining receptacles in the radio room and install the outside access box to allow my antenna cables to be brought into the radio room.