Year 6, Day 18 “Living the Dream”. Monday, 5/18/2026, Clifty Hill 3. Home Excavation Day 12, ,Footings Day 4. Justin and Bobi spent last night here. First things first. Happy Happy Birthday to Jenna. Here’s a concrete pour for you. We love you.
We are up and out by 6:30am. The first load of concrete is here at 7:02am. First truck with 10 yards did most of the main home area.
At 7:30am the second truck was sitting at the end of the driveway waiting it’s trun.
Second truck with ten yards did the master bedroom suite area and most of the garage. Just a small section was left. The first concrete out of the second truck was so hard it created a blockage at the top of the chute. When wetted up the blockage released. It all came out as a big mess in the first pier hole. A lot of manual shoveling had to be done to move the extra to another hole. We are thinking this happened because the truck sat waiting for awhile in the hot sun before it started the pour.
Third truck was ordered with three yards and left with concrete after finishing the garage footing.
Three trucks with three different drivers and 23 yards of concrete later and the footings are done. We are all cleaned up and in the house by 11am. No problems at all. What made it so easy was the set up that was done. The prep work Steve did made it easy for the trucks to pull in and around the homesite.
Here are nine short videos of the pour. It is a very interesting process. Felt it might be better than one long video.
Daily reflection:
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