The Concrete Must Flow!

The big day finally arrived!  It was time to get the concrete poured and the real work of building out the new digs could get underway.

It was cold, arguably too cold to pour, but as we were indoors and rented some HUGE heaters, we decided to get it done.

Dan Wilson Concrete showed up with some huge trucks, a concrete pumper and some of the hardest working guys I have run into in a long, long time.  Concrete work is largely done by hand.  Until you see just how much, it is hard to believe.

 

The day began by simply getting the pour started.  Amazingly, that was the easy part.

 

The pumper was able to get the concrete into almost every corner of the building.  If not, they were looking at using wheel barrows to haul it in by hand.  Glad it worked...

It took most of the morning to get it all poured, leveled and floated.  Once it started to set, the incredibly difficult job of final floating and polishing the floor began.

Yep, he is wearing concrete skates on his knees.  These allowed him to hand float the hard to get and finicky areas.

 

Turns out they ended up hand floating almost 4000 square feet of concrete!

 

Finally, they broke out the power floats.  These polished the concrete to a high shine.

Again, I have to say, this was an amazingly hard day of work for these guys, they deserve every penny they make, possibly a lot more!

I wish I had really good pics of the finished floor, it is a thing of beauty.  Unfortunately the extreme cold kept fogging the lenses of my camera so most of my shorts were ruined.

Next:  HVAC, Framing and the rough in begins!