Concrete Flows...and flows....

It's been awhile !  Lots of work still going on, just less time to post about it !  These shots are from the concrete pour couple of weeks ago.  You can see the prep with the rebar going in, and then our friendly concrete pumper and his remote controlled pump ( very cool ) pouring concrete into our new addition.

I was able to get the local concrete company to add fly ash to the mix.  Sounds like a funny term...fly ash...and no...it's not from burning flies.  Green Lesson !  Fly ash is a by-product of coal burning powerplants and by substituting fly ash for portland cemet in the mix, you use less cement.  You also avoid that fly ash going into the waste stream and it makes the concrete stronger.

The rest of the photos show the finishing of the slab and patches for the plumbing channels we ran in the old slab.  The final picture shows the floor finished and waiting for the concrete to set. 

From here we go on to framing and getting the walls up for running electrical, continuing the plumbing into the walls and gettin the gas lines set.  More pictures to follow !

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