No Turning Back Now!

The Building Permit Application

It's been a busy few days for Monster Garage.  And I think we are at the no-turning-back point, since we have done a few things that make us committed (or is that we should be committed???)

 First, on Thursday, Rob filled out the Building Permit Application, made it into a PDF, emailed me, and I ran it upstairs to submit it  They looked it over and said it seemed okay, and that it would take 12 working days to process.  Yay!





The first jackhammer


 




Nothing like heavy machinery to bring the guys out to watch!



Before


Then on Friday, we both took the day offwork to await bobcat guy.  He showed up at 8:15 a.m..  First, he put on an attachment on his bobcat and jackhammered the old concrete pad.  Pretty cool.  That took only half an hour.



After

 Then he put on the bucket scoop on the bobcat and scooped up all the pieces into a dump truck.  That took 45 minutes.



After that, then he spent about another 45 minutes digging out the old soil, sand, and grass to get the area to the the right even depth.  Put that in the dump truck.  Then for the next two hours, he put gravel in the area, stopping and eye balling the level, then Rob and I surveying for the level.  Back and forth, back and forth....Kept running out of gravel...they went back for two more loads, so 16 cubic yards of gravel in total.

It was too high in one area and too low in another.  Finally, it was as close as it could get and he left--at 3:30 p.m.  Seven hours.  We called it a day.



It's finished!



Then on Saturday, we spent the afternoon surveying, digging up high spots and moving to low spots.  More surveying.

Then came a rain delay, so we rushed out with a giant tarp to keep the area dry (kind like when they rush out to cover baseball diamonds on TV).

The rain let up and we built the forms for the site for the concrete.  Then the rain cam back, so we called it a night.

 

And I'm writing this on Sunday--it's been raining all night, and off and on all day.  So no more levelling today.  We'll try next weekend to get it level and then rent a tamper to compact the gravel.  Then tie the rebar.  Then concrete.



So as I said, we can't turn back now, so a garage is in our future!