Breaking Ground
We have to watch out for the gas line that was put in a month ago and remove all the hidden buried stuff. Two loads in the dump truck.
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Forms and steel ready
And we have a sunny warm day to boot. Because the foundation and slab are all poured in one piece, the edge has to be deeper to get below the frost line. To prevent cracking, we put steel in the floor and had a fiberglass compound in the concrete.
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Another view of the preparation before pouring.
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Concrete is poured
They spend many hours and late into the night smoothing it out. The temperature dropped, so the concrete setup very slowly. Plastic was placed over the concrete overnight to prevent freezing as it did get to -3.
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Now it's Phil's turn. Here he's building the walls. Jean and I lend our support to raise the walls.
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Snow complicates the building, but Phil keeps at it to get the trusses up.
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At this point, the plywood is almost all on. Phil then spends the next two days finishing the plywood, putting on the shingles, and installing the roof vents. We'll leave the electrical and gas work to others when the ground thaws. The plan is to have the garage insulated and heated, but this winter at least we'll have a roof to keep the snow and ice off the cars.
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