Day 17-21 (Oct 18-24)

Well, a general breakdown in communications tubed the last aggressive plan before it had a chance to get off of the ground.  The plan to poach concrete from the neighbor's driveway pour never made it down the chain from the planners to the doers.  As a result, all of the concrete that came out went into Bob's driveway and he still needed about 7 more yards.  They have run out of time to get another truck in before knock off work on Friday, so the plan slipped to pour the closet on Monday.  As for the forms and spray this week--pipe dream as I suspected.

Then it goes from poor communications and execution to rework.  It rained heavily over the weekend flooding the sunken closet and invalidating the termite treatment.  The gutter downspout for the back roof had been removed to make room for the footer pour.  One problem, the water still drains from the gutter without a downspout and the gutter outlet is perfectly located above the sunken closet.

So, we saw no work on Friday (our day to get lots done), nothing happened on Monday while the remedial plan was devised.  It rained on Tuesday.  I am sensing a pattern here.

Wednesday afternoon work started again.  New plan.  Fill and grade for the patio today, move a couple of bushes, start the forms for the patio.  Thursday, reprep the closet, add rebar linking the poured foundation to the closet foundation.  Spray the patio and closet.  Finish the forms and rebar for the patio.  Friday, inspection and pour the patio.  Well, Wednesday went sort of according to plan--within reach of the goals anyway.  Thursday, the termite spray happened and the area was covered.  It took until 1500 to finish the forms.  Ahh, rebar for the inspection tomorrow morning--well it is getting late. Close to tea time I suppose.  Plan changes to install rebar Friday morning before the inspection before the concrete pour.  Concrete crew expects to arrive at 0730.  I attempt to contain my laughter.  We will see how far we get tomorrow.

The plan of record is to put down rebar, inspect and pour on Friday, deliver framing materials Friday or Monday, and start framing next week.  The fear is that if they do not get the pour done today and it rains this weekend (not expected but possible) all the rebar and plastic will need to come back out so that the termite treatment can be started again.  If this happens, the sunken closet will have been treated three times--that should be termite free well into the next ice age.