First Pour

They poured the lower support posts, lower slab, and garage slab today. The cement trucks emptied into a pumper on the street. The pumper had a long boom that reached down the hill.



Pedro and crew are busy smoothing out 70 yards of concrete. Pedro said it was a good day for the pour, at about 50 degrees--not too cold, not too hot. And, the weather calls for rain, which will help it cure slowly.



The concrete contains fly ash, which makes it more environmentally friendly. http://www.toolbase.org/Technology-Inventory/Foundations/fly-ash-concrete. Don says that after it cures a while, they will tighten up the tension posts and it will make a really strong slab.

Here are Don and Pedro, checking the plans.

After this concrete sets up, Pedro will remove the forms and reuse them for the upper slab.