Poured the floor Saturday morning. Good news and bad news with it.
We got about 2" of rain the night before, so I wasn't sure that we would be able to do it or not. It stopped raining around 3am Saturday and about 8am the first truck showed up. The ground was already pretty soft and sloppy back there with no topsoil left. First cement truck made it back just fine and started sending the mix down the chute. When it came time for him to back up some....he started spinning and sunk in. Even with all 6 drive tires locked in he wasn't going anywhere. Luckily the second truck had shown up and was able to get him out. Took a few tugs but eventually he came out. The second truck didn't have any problems, he was able to stay on firmer ground.
That was the good news (when the good news is a cement truck getting stuck...that bad must be brutal).
I had bought some anchor pots to install in the slab while we were pouring. Only two of them, one centered in each bay along the back wall. Just something to hook a winch/come along to so I could pull a dead vehicle in. We got the floor down, screeded and floated out. After it had set up a little, just as we were about to power trowel, one of the helpers went out to put in the pots. I figured he knew what he was doing and wouldn't have any problems. By this time it was starting to rain fairly hard so the rest of us were busy getting some plastic on the doors to prevent the rain from coming in. It was also around this time that I had to take off and get ready for a wedding that afternoon, so I left and let them finish. Come back from the wedding and it was dark, plus I had been up all day, was tired and had to work at 7am the next morning....so I didn't go out and look at the slab. Get home from work Sunday and head out to check it out. Walk in the man door and start looking around. Floor looks beautiful, finish looks great. Glance over at one of the anchor pots and notice it doesn't look right. Take a closer look and........he put it in up side down! Up side F-ing down! I was so pissed. Nothing I could do about it at the time either.
After I calmed down some I went back inside and called my dad. He works for the guy who was in charge of the pour/finishing and is a good friend of mine. Dad said he didn't notice it at the time and Bobby probably didn't either. We are going to have to cut them out and re-pour them. Which isn't a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, just hate to have had that happen. Tomorrow (Tuesday) they are going to saw cut the control joints and will cut the pots out. This weekend we are going to pour the approach in front of the building (4' out the width of the front) so we will have a load coming in anyway.
In other news, my door guy came by today and dropped off his scaffolding, so I'm guessing my overhead doors will be coming shortly. The builders also finished up the fascia/trim today that was missing from the building package. So I'm really close to being done and on my own for electrical and trimming out the inside.
I didn't get any pictures of the pour or of the cement truck stuck. I have a habit of dropping my phone so I thought being around wet concrete wasn't the best place for it.
Yard as of today. Haven't gotten any rain since Saturday...still sloppy.
From one of the big doors looking out.
From the man door.
Other corner.
Upside down anchor pot. Why he thought it went this way...I have no idea. Maybe the nice flush cover of the other side wasn't clue enough. They aren't flush with the floor either (about 1/4" up), which I could have lived with had they been installed correctly. I will make sure they are installed correctly and flush this time.
