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.\u00a0 When we went up this morning we were amazed to see that we had walls in our basement.\u00a0 Not only did we have walls but we also had frames for windows.\u00a0 It was looking like a house.<\/p>\n
The guys had worked part of the weekend and had made brilliant progress.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 So we took a few pictures and went back to the village to refuel (lunch) before going back to site for 14.00.<\/p>\n
Well it was about 14.30 when we got there.\u00a0 We found 2 trucks on site, one cement truck and one rig for pumping the cement.\u00a0 All was quiet though apart from the slow turning of the cement in the truck.\u00a0 The rig was broken \ud83d\ude41 It took 6 guys an hour to fix the broken rig and get it functioning again.\u00a0 At one point there was a man inside the rig trying to unblock it.\u00a0 The space was so tiny\u00a0we wondered if he would get back out of it again.\u00a0 Every so often we would see\u00a0a hand come out of this little window to get a hammer or some other implement to hit the rig with.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We also needed to make the most of a clear space behind the car.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Time to make a quick exit.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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