Mud!

Hey folks, just a fast update as not a lot has happened in the last week.

I got Alfie’s shoe back on last Thursday, but it was clear my soil screening days were over for the season.  Everything is now just mud and the soil is not separating from the rock.  No worries, I finished almost all of it and should have enough screened soil to finish the backfill on the front of the garage and north side of the house once the concrete garage slab and basement stairs foundation has been poured.

I spent most of the rest of the week in the office first of all finishing off the company finances and submitting my income and GST returns and then coming up with a plan for the garage slab forming.  I do not want to have to form the wall stub that juts up above the slab as a separate pour, so it is a bit of a challenge to support the formwork for the stub when unable to attach to anything on the inboard side.  It is further complicated by the fact that the slab slopes 2″ from back to front for drainage.  So I need to create pie shaped plywood forms for the inboard side of the south and north walls as I still want the wall stub to be flat (so I do not have to frame to a slopping surface).  I came up with the image below and started installing today.

The rest of the week will be spent on forming and hopefully by next week I will have the shoring sourced and start its install for the slab.  My goal is to have everything ready for inspection by the end of the month at the latest.

Thanks for visiting.

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