Watching Concrete Dry

Well the concrete is in. Three cement mixers full of concrete. They started at 6 am and were done pouring around 9 am. A few more hours of smoothing and polishing and one sunny windy day in Flagstaff!

They poured the game room side first. This is the end of the first truck full. You can see the compacted fill and re-bar in the garage section. There were at least 15 guys out there to make it all happen quickly!

They pumped the concrete up from the road since the front yard is so steep.

The forms around the steel beam hold the re-bar and concrete for the grade beam.

Next they poured the 8 foot flat section in the back of the garage. Several guys worked on smoothing the game room floor while the others poured the sloped portions of the garage.

Two truck fulls are in and they need a third to finish the rest of the two car garage.

The floor slopes to the two drains in the floor under where the cars go.

They sprayed a milky looking sealer on the concrete to slow the drying.

Busy smoothing and polishing.

Later in the afternoon you could still feel the heat in the slab. The garage looks smaller with the slab!

Flagstaff weather strikes again! Unfortunately the concrete dried too quickly and cracks formed all over the game room slab and a few in the garage. They call these hydration cracks which occur when the top dries too quickly. Looks like we can play hopscotch in the game room!


On to framing this coming week hopefully...once we agree on a plan to deal with the cracks.