Pool House Expansion Project - Day Twelve Through Fifteen - 6-9/10/15

Days Twelve Through Fifteen - 6-9 October, 2015

Things are moving right along. Plumbing needs have to be addressed at this time. Any piping that goes into or through the poured concrete must be taken care of to the same extent that it's integrity and alighnment is maintained.

Which mean't that a big chunk of time went to tapping into the cold water feed from the kitchen, as you can see in the photo below.

Gluing the Piping

Here it's finished and is run through the cabinet wall into the adjascent cabinet and then through the wall into the utility room.

Cold Water Connected

A part that also needs to be taken care of is the laundry hookup and waste line. Those are all going to be hidden in the wall, so it became necessary to cut a hole in the wall in order to feed the lines and equipment as necessary.

Washer Plumbing From Plenum

Here you can see the plumbing lines running adjascent to the west wall of the foundation.

Risers For Bathroom Faucet, Toilet, and Shower

Our first big load of cement arriving. It's soon stacked up on the pallets and protected from rainfall.

150 Bags of Cement Arriving

The washer plenum was hard to assemble. Nothing wanted to go in the right way. Just one of those days.

Assembling the Washer Plenum

Omar is patching where the water service line comes through from the kitchen into the utility room. You can also see one of the risers that is currently stubbed off. They're for the reverse osmosis system and the saltless water softener.

Omar Patching the Hole From the Kitchen

Rocks are now being placed into the gaps in the foundation block work. Hard work. None of the rocks get lighter as they're handled.

Arranging the Rocks

They've also taken the opportunity to fill the bases of the vertical columns with concrete.

Concrete Fill on Column Base

Always time for a little consultation. You have to make sure everything is being looked at and that it's in place and protected as necessary.

Conferring on Plumbing

More of the fill of rocks. Still a huge area to fill inside those two rows of blocks.

Rocks Filling the Holes

Omar, making sure the plumbing runs are in place and protected .

Setting the Plumbing on its Supports

Overfilled, but with the intent that the overage will simply be transferred to the inner void to be filled up.

One Section Filled to Overflowing

After a hard day's work, ready for the ride home in the evening.

A Hard Day's Work is Done

Everything Happens At Once

Just when you think nothing's happening... I was just about ready to jump into the rain locker to replace the old sweat with some new, fresh sweat, when everything happened.

First, here comes Mr. Trummer with his track hoe to unstick the grader. Right behind them, not more than two minutes, comes a delivery van and trailer with cement and rebar for the bulkhead project.

I got distracted with watching the van bringing in the cement as he was perilously close to where our 3" drain pipe runs out to the canal. This pipe drains most of the storm water from our house gutters, and several ground drains I have around the place, so it was critical that it stay functional.

That all went well. I did make it downstairs to snap a shot of the guys beginning to offload the cement.

Off-Loading The Goods

After taking this shot, I returned to the house to fetch my gate remote so I could go take a few shots of the track-hoe yanking on the grader.

As I was heading up the stairs, I looked up just in time to see the hoe pulling the grader out of the muck. I barely had time to snap this image from our front step landing.

Abracadabra - It's Out!

So, the grader is now out of trouble. I took a break for a few minutes, then went back down to see how the unloading was going. I headed out the door just in time to see the delivery van heading for the gate. They had unloaded the rebar and bags of cement, so I headed down to take look-see.

Precarious At Best

And here's the result. About 50 110-lb bags of cement, all carefully balanced on one pallet. I suppose they'll use the smallest guy in the crew to pull off the initial bags come time for the pour.

Now, I can relax, take a quick shower and head down for pool time... But wait! Thunder is coming and dark skies. Pool time might be limited today. C'est la vie.