Stripped Clean

My last posting on the garage foundation showed formwork and rebar done, ready to receive concrete. Since I was doing the actual concrete pour alone, my hands were a bit too busy to take photographs of that event. But here is the result, the first photo showing the concrete just after form removal.

The second photo shows the new concrete at the left of the picture after backfilling with crushed limestone. That area between the two concrete foundations is the parking area for two cars, with a storage room/workshop to be built over the slab on the right.

Funny how the concrete foundations process works; you work hard to make everything perfect, plumb, free of voids... and then you cover most of it up, never to be seen again. Unless it is done WRONG, of course, in which case you'll be seeing much more of it than in your worst nightmare.

This last photo shows Buzz the wonder car perched on top of the parking area before any of the new concrete was done. No real reason for this photo being here, other than Buzz loves the publicity. And I love the smug irony of building a house using a 50 MPG hybrid for most of the material hauling, when suburban America is searching for their next monster SUV so they can pretend like they'll actually every go off road... Oops, better put the environmental wacko persona back in the closet before things get ugly...