the past few weeks have been an adventure, to say the least!
we've been battling the weather (thanks tropical storm ida!), inspections (thanks city of charlottesville!) and a deluge of concrete/footing dilemmas. needless to say, we're learning a LOT about the construction process.
as you know, we dug the holes a few weeks ago.
then, we fixed the holes and poured concrete. tommy came by and helped us mix a sturdy, soupy batch of concrete. each of the 22 footings, 24" inches in diameter, needs 6" of concrete...that's a lot of mixing!
the footings solidified well. then we double checked and found some fun errors. more excavating and soil compressing set everything up and now we are ready to set the posts and backfill!!
anyway, this project is still going strong! we've had a great turnout for work days and we've had a great response from the city offices and united rentals. lowe's and nature nurture have been great too, and where would we be without martin's hardware?
please come out and help over the next few weeks! we WILL finish this before the semester ends!!
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