They then put some gravel and rebar in the garage area preparing it for the slab to be poured. Then, it sat for about a week.
Garage compacted
Front porch compacted
Back patio compacted
Garage with gravel and rebar
We'd drive by every day and see nothing, which was disappointing and a little frustrating. Then, one morning after dropping my son off for school I swung by the property and saw the trucks and guys working. I stood and watched them work for a while. I'm sure they thought I was crazy. It was about 40 degrees, SUPER windy, which makes the cold a million times worse and I was in a t-shirt and basketball shorts. I always appreciate watching people do a good job at whatever they are trained to do. These guys worked fast and as a team. I chatted with them for a bit and then had to get home and get back to what I needed to get done.
I was happy to see one truck.
When the other one showed up and they were pouring at the same time I was pretty impressed with the teamwork from these guys.
They had a really cool way of getting the grade. They had big nails with "L" shaped brackets secured to them at a certain height and the bracket fit right into a long aluminum thing in the shape of a 2x4 that was about 10 feet long.
Before even half of the concrete had been poured they were working on smoothing it out.
Started turning white as it dried out.
A day later they came back and cut some lines in the concrete.
This was 5 days ago. No news on the next steps. Lumber should be next and framing but we have started looking at fixtures for plumbing so they can start to frame it out correctly.
Hopefully they'll start the framing soon. We were told the framers that our general contractor uses are the best in the area but that they were a few weeks out. This was back at the time we met to order our windows and exterior doors so maybe in the next week or two. I'm hoping! When not much goes it feels like things are dragging out from day to day, which made the last 2 weeks, a slow 2 weeks!