The Big Move

So, Day 8 and we now have garage walls, well the base for them.  We popped up to the site today as we had to meet with the power people re our power poles going in and we wanted to see what we had missed yesterday.

There was nobody on site today so we decided to have a look around the inside of what has been built so far – the only problem is we have no door yet.  To get in we had to climb a ladder on one side of the walls and then go across the top of the wall part way (wall is about 8 inches wide) and then down another ladder.  Well – I dont like ladders at the best of times and once I got to the top of the first one and saw the drop on the other side I couldnt go over.  I did manage to get in though – I grabbed the a-frame step, carried it down the side of the house, under a low plank and into the bottom of the hole for the basement.  I then climbed on it to the window frame and pulled myself through so I was sitting in the frame.  I then climbed down the ladder on the inside.  It was a bit of a faff but I wanted to walk around the inside 🙂

Its not as though there is much to see on the inside as we only have the starts of walls but it is all progress.  To get back out of the basement I did climb the ladder and go over the top of the wall – the drop on the other side is not as big as it goes into the garage which has a raised floor.

Our builder is now away for a week so there wont be any progress reports until the end of next week.

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This weekend was Thanksgiving weekend and so we hadn’t been up to the site for a couple of days, thinking that everyone would have been on holiday…… we were wrong.  When we went up this morning we were amazed to see that we had walls in our basement.  Not only did we have walls but we also had frames for windows.  It was looking like a house.

The guys had worked part of the weekend and had made brilliant progress.  When we arrived they were just finishing off the framework for the garage foundations and we were told that the cement trucks were coming in the afternoon.  So we took a few pictures and went back to the village to refuel (lunch) before going back to site for 14.00.

Well it was about 14.30 when we got there.  We found 2 trucks on site, one cement truck and one rig for pumping the cement.  All was quiet though apart from the slow turning of the cement in the truck.  The rig was broken 🙁 It took 6 guys an hour to fix the broken rig and get it functioning again.  At one point there was a man inside the rig trying to unblock it.  The space was so tiny we wondered if he would get back out of it again.  Every so often we would see a hand come out of this little window to get a hammer or some other implement to hit the rig with.

At 15.30 it started to pump and we watched as they filled the garage foundation, the pillar supports for our steps and then the basement walls.  After an hour they were about 2 feet up the inside of the walls – with another 7 feet to go we decided it was probably best to head home.  We also needed to make the most of a clear space behind the car.  With the hour long hold up there were now 3 cement trucks and the rig on site, as well as the contractors vehicles and the fourth truck was due.  Time to make a quick exit.

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