Originally the footings of our cottage were supposed to be poured on Tuesday June 15th. But that morning started with rain, beginning about 6:00AM and lasting until around lunchtime. At times it came down heavily, and we ended up with almost half an inch. It was far too wet to consider a concrete pour even though the sun came out and the wind picked up for the rest of the day. We re-scheduled for the next day.
Scott and his two men, Basil and Dave, showed up first thing in the morning and started installing rebar into all of the forms. It took a couple of hours to get everything pinned and wired into place. The first of two mixer trucks showed up at around 10:30AM. We used a total of 8 cubic meters of concrete. We filled all of the forms and had enough left to make two small pads for teleposts, and to fill in a bit of the uneven rock in what will become the crawl space.
The trucks were able to shoot concrete into about 40 per cent of the forms. The rest had to be manhandled with wheelbarrows. Scott and Dave mostly ran the wheelbarrows while Basil and I shovelled everything into place. By shortly after lunch we were done, and had all the rebar hooks placed into the footings. I checked the concrete later in the afternoon before Anna and I headed back home to the city and it had already set.
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