After a week's delay due to the City of Menlo Park's inability to staple our plans together correctly, we passed our inspection of the forms yesterday and poured our concrete today. Due to the length of our lot, the concrete guys rigged up a long pipe and pumped the contents of 3 concrete trucks from the street, down the driveway, through the backyard and into the forms. All in all they poured 35 yards of concrete to form the foundation and slab for the garage. They started bright and early at 8 and by the end of the day had poured all the concrete, finished it and removed the forms. The girls put their initials in the garage floor for posterity.
This picture shows the truck blocking our driveway and the pipe lying along the driveway. For the amount of concrete they pumped, they were really fast, and only blocked the driveway for the morning.
It was really cold this morning when the concrete guys got here, but they beat the rain and got the concrete finished and the forms off before quitting time around 4 pm.
It's really great to have an actual part of the garage in place! We are working on moving out this week so that we can start on the house part of the project in early January.
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