To pour the footers, we need concrete mixer trucks, in this case from County Concrete Corp. (They gave Frank the best price.) I had to go to work so I'm not sure how many trucks we needed. Each one dumps its load into the concrete pump truck. It takes about half an hour to use up one truck's worth of concrete but the next truck is already parked a few feet away waiting to offload its cargo.
The pump truck, in this case from Lehigh Concrete Placement Inc., (Frank works with them regularly and feels comfortable using them) has a long boom arm to deliver the concrete to where it is needed even if its too far away from where the trucks themselves can reach. In this case, the mixer stayed on the street and the pump truck on the driveway where it meets the street.
The truck driver can control the boom remotely (the man on the left side of the left picture) while Frank and his crew work in and next to the forms, making sure the concrete flows smoothly, where it needs to go and then smoothing the top of the footers.
This is what the site looks like after they finished for the day.
A view from where the driveway will be at the front of the house, looking along the basement wall under the office (lower section) and garage (upper section), and another view from along the back (foundation) wall for the garage.
And, yes, our concrete-encased electrode/Ufer ground is still there.
The truck driver can control the boom remotely (the man on the left side of the left picture) while Frank and his crew work in and next to the forms, making sure the concrete flows smoothly, where it needs to go and then smoothing the top of the footers.
This is what the site looks like after they finished for the day.
A view from where the driveway will be at the front of the house, looking along the basement wall under the office (lower section) and garage (upper section), and another view from along the back (foundation) wall for the garage.
And, yes, our concrete-encased electrode/Ufer ground is still there.
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