Thanks for the feedback Paul. I just called Montana DOT and they're starting construction either Monday or Tuesday, the worst possible time for me. They said the delays should be no more than 15 minutes...I told him I can't handle any delays at all. There's usually not lot of traffic on Flesher Pass mid-day but if there is I'm in trouble. I wish they would delay til Wednesday.
We talked about bringing the trucks over the pass dry and adding water locally which seems like a good solution but the concrete companies won't do that. I looked at the volume needed and it would be almost 300 gallons per truck, almost 4000 gallons for the whole project. I don't know if my well would even support that, and it would take somewhere around 20 minutes to fill each truck with water. Then what if my well went dry? It's a moot point anyway.
This slab is so big that the first truck will not quite fill the footing on the east end. Every truck after that adds about 8 1/4 feet to the slab. We plan to bring two trucks together to get started, then a truck every 20 minutes, which Josh thinks is about the time it takes to empty a truck with the pump truck. If we need to break the slab into two pours, I would want to do it under the partition wall which is at 54 feet from the east end. We can only make it to about 40 feet across with the first company. I told Josh I'd rather not break it, and if we can get to the second company's trucks we should keep pouring. This is so damn stressful.
I also finally got the preliminary SIP drawings from Premier, and they screwed up there too. They still have the upper level walls on them, and I told them a month ago I was deleting the upper level. So they knew about it for weeks and didn't correct it. I think their internal communication sucks. The also added an interior SIP partition wall for some odd reason, but I intend to frame that wall. So there's 11 SIP walls listed and I only need 4. I sent them an e-mail and talked to the project manager this morning, and told him I needed all of those walls completely deleted and only have 4 left. He hadn't even looked at my e-mail yet which I sent Tuesday. I need this design done because it takes 4 weeks after approval to get them manufactured, and I need to order trusses too.
I've moved trailers out of the way for the concrete trucks and this whole thing is making me really nervous.
We talked about bringing the trucks over the pass dry and adding water locally which seems like a good solution but the concrete companies won't do that. I looked at the volume needed and it would be almost 300 gallons per truck, almost 4000 gallons for the whole project. I don't know if my well would even support that, and it would take somewhere around 20 minutes to fill each truck with water. Then what if my well went dry? It's a moot point anyway.
This slab is so big that the first truck will not quite fill the footing on the east end. Every truck after that adds about 8 1/4 feet to the slab. We plan to bring two trucks together to get started, then a truck every 20 minutes, which Josh thinks is about the time it takes to empty a truck with the pump truck. If we need to break the slab into two pours, I would want to do it under the partition wall which is at 54 feet from the east end. We can only make it to about 40 feet across with the first company. I told Josh I'd rather not break it, and if we can get to the second company's trucks we should keep pouring. This is so damn stressful.
I also finally got the preliminary SIP drawings from Premier, and they screwed up there too. They still have the upper level walls on them, and I told them a month ago I was deleting the upper level. So they knew about it for weeks and didn't correct it. I think their internal communication sucks. The also added an interior SIP partition wall for some odd reason, but I intend to frame that wall. So there's 11 SIP walls listed and I only need 4. I sent them an e-mail and talked to the project manager this morning, and told him I needed all of those walls completely deleted and only have 4 left. He hadn't even looked at my e-mail yet which I sent Tuesday. I need this design done because it takes 4 weeks after approval to get them manufactured, and I need to order trusses too.
I've moved trailers out of the way for the concrete trucks and this whole thing is making me really nervous.
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