DAY 5- FOOTING LAYOUT AND REMOVAL

Today the two concrete contractors came to perform the footing layout. They came and set up their card table to hold the plans, two chairs and their theodolite.

Concrete contractors reviewing plans

Again we had a visitor from down around the corner, Anabelle. She too wants to see what is going on. At least today there are not big excavators running around, so she is not in the danger that she was on her first visit. A call to the number on the tag, and her papa wasn't home, so I walked her down to her home around the corner.




Anabelle

By noon time, the markings were done, and they were waiting for the excavators to arrive so they could discuss digging the trenches. On time, Greg arrived and reporting was completed. The excavators went to work flattening out the lower garage pad and wiping out the chalk markings, although engineer husband says they marked it in other ways.

Storage room and bathroom marked. Lower garage chalk marks are gone

After the leveling of the lower garage was completed, husband drove the truck onto the pad. It doesn't look as big as I would think. A discussion had been done earlier in the day how during the process of construction, the size perception changes.
 

Truck in the lower garage

A parking pad had not been in the original plan, but when discussing the removal of 12 trucks of dirt, I suggested that we put a parking pad below the garage to use the dirt. The pad grew and grew as dirt was removed and it seemed possible to widen the pad without the dirt falling in to the stream below. It ended up quite large, although we haven't measured it.



The parking pad- large enough to hold two trucks and and excavator and more

The weekend is here, so no contractor activity will occur. I will plant the removed iris, and a trip to the dump is in order, as well as a trip to Hetch Hetchy where we have never been.