Do you have to use a concrete pumper? Our foundation and property were such that we had to do that and the scheduling of it meant we really couldn't have delays...Those big pumper trucks are expensive per day!
Yes everything was pump truck. The local concrete vendor owns the trucks which makes scheduling handy.
Today was the big day. We had rains that bogged us down and also made a bit of a slick mess right where my utility trench went though. I grabbed 11 tons of 3" minus this morning to make a pad off the driveway for the concrete trucks to back to the pump truck.
It went pretty good or so it seemed. I had the same company that did the flatwork send out two guys to help with the pour.
There were a couple of small blowouts that patched up easily, and the door buck pushed in and I pushed it back with a sledge and a wedged 4x6.
We ran the walls and plumbed it up with the outside alignment system at about 2/3rds full. We figured we were home free. NOT!
Apparently the last lift and plenty of vibrating moved the big east wall over 1.5" out of plumb to the inside. I did not catch it until we were wet setting anchor bolts.
The alignment system was unable to pull it back out, and our attempts to wedge it with a lumber triangle were fruitless.
Please do not try this next part at home.
In my 40 plus years as an excavator operator, I have done many strange and crazy things but this took the cake. I moved 150 yards of spoils in a few minutes and then pulled on the wall in 3 places, bringing it back into plumb. Then we reset the alignment and got it done.
