Foundation Pour

It's pretty exciting seeing the concrete truck roll up, knowing that there will be three guys busting their butts for the next few hours as they fight against the quick cure-time in the summer heat!

Leveling the bottom layer in the form

Laying in the bottom layer of rebar

Corner rebar at the conduits

Filling the SonoTube that will support the porch columns.  It's a pretty small target and I was impressed that the driver can control the position of his truck within a couple inches.  Plus, he was able to limit the flow rate down the chute to something that didn't overwhelm the guys' ability to direct it into the tube.

All the concrete has been poured, and it's time to polish the top.  It takes quite a bit of muscle with the magnesium float (chosen because magnesium doesn't draw water to the surface in the way a metal float would).

The outer forms were striped about 2 hours after the pour started--way faster than I would have anticipated.

After a quick polish with the sponge float, it's ready to sit and cure.  They chose to leave the inner forms on for a day because the forecast called for rain.  The idea is that you don't want all three faces of the concrete to get wet.