WEEK 6: Not Much New To Report

This week moved along at a slow pace although there were some critical milestones hurdled in the process.

Most of the visual progress was the entire backfilling (is that a word?) of the trenches for plumbing and electrical conduits, and a forced settling of the earth with compacting tools. Today they'll flood the site with water to force additional settling before next week's progress.

Most importantly, the site passed three inspections this week by the city and county, so now we can move forward without any (known) issues to the post-tensioning aspects of the slab development.

These piles are from the backfill of the trenches, and for the base of the foundation slab to come.

The stuff looks like crushed lava rock, but is actually a brown rock found in the local mountains similar to crushed granite found in Texas. 

Compacting is pretty straightforward. Run a skid steer blade (small heavy tractor) over the sight until everything is level. Add water.

Temporary framing to outline the location of all of the plumbing and electrical locations.

More flattening of the trenches. That's it for this week. More to come next week...