By Our Own Hands or None - Concrete 2: Revenge of the Crete
Concrete 2 Revenge of the Crete Vampire Wire and other torture devices July 2019 was a good month to pour concrete. Not so much because of the weather, which was surface-of-the-sun hot, but because we finally passed the first plumbing inspection. Still, there were a few things to sort out before we got around to playing in the mud. The first and most important was to fill and compact all the trenches that wouldn't end up full of concrete. Plumbing finished? Well, close enough for government work. Part of the foundation plan called for a few interior footers to help bear the load of the second story and the interior stairs, so these needed to be dug out, beveled off, and readied for concrete. Like everything else we did, these footers were both wider, deeper, and more reinforced than the blueprints required. Anything worth doing is worth doing right, as they say. You can see the main interior footer in the middle of the flab. Also pictured: the shower framing. One of those all imp