Here is my present workshop status, in case anyone is interested. I posted when I started and I'm only a week from putting up the building, should be erecting the building on the 15th and 16th.; Concrete will be put on the ground at 0'dark thirty in the morning (04:30). I will update the web page again as soon as I can.
I'd make some comment, but my envy has me immobilized right now.
I wish you luck on all stages of construction. Stay close to it, and even if you don't know what the guys are doing, they will do a better job if they know the owner is standing there. It's always good to put both hands on your hips every once in a while and gaze at the work, hold a nine iron vertically between two fingertips as if checking an imaginary line, and that thumb and forefinger massage of the chin will make a clueless newbie look like a construction super to most average workmen. Leave them alone to do their work, and if you do have a problem, go to the supervisor ONLY.
Now, what do I do about this envy?
Looks like mine is still months out unless those darn Lotto people can pick the right numbers.
Even for high-early strength mix (which I somewhat doubt it is) you want at least 7 days of good curing. Green (fresh) concrete is fragile as all get-out, and gets stronger with age and wet. 28 days at 70 F with sufficient water at all times is the "standard design strength". 4 days is silly. If it rains, leave it alone, if it doesn't rain, put a sprinkler on it, and leave the damn thing to itself for a few weeks, minimum.
I will never pour concrete without fiber! That is a given; The concrete is 3500 psi w/fiber. I didn't see the link show up so if anybody is interested here it is again.
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:05:23 -0000, with neither quill nor qualm, mike quickly quoth:
Mike, RE: the index page, the links on the bottom of that page aren't hot and your counter code is showing.
I hope the pumper guy cleans up his mess. A bigass lump of concrete like that would be hard to work around. He shouldn't have let it harden on him in the pipe, huh? Well, either that or the concrete truck guy added a bag of fibers and didn't mix them in well, resulting in a lump. The pumper could see that during his disassembly. I heard lots of horror stories from a pumper friend a couple decades ago.
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