Concrete in the basement... it's a wrap!

Tom's entire team was hard at work this morning, bombing the concrete into the basement and spreading it out.  It's a tough job, but much better than laying brick on a sunny scaffold!

Meanwhile, Junior and his team were in to install the housewrap on the house.  With the masonry still about four weeks away, it's always good to have a professional wrap the house and make it as tight as possible for any weather that might blow our way.  Once the windows are in, we'll be pretty water tight.

In the afternoon, Tom and his brother worked on forming the porch and back walkout stairs, while the concrete dried enough to begin the "helicoptering" process (basically, smoothing!).

Pour cancelled

Unfortunately, Tom found out that their concrete supplier, a big local company, was shut down by Ministry of Labour late last night and we weren't able to get a substitute company in this morning.  We've had to delay the concrete pour, and Tom and countless other crews around the city will be sitting twiddling their thumbs... too bad.

Concrete Prep, Roof Done

While Virgilio's crew finished the roof, the boys from BHM were in all day prepping the basement and garage slab for the pour tomorrow.  I always love the care and attention that Tom and his crew take to doing a proper job with the slab - proper wire mesh placement, a good amount of gravel for drainage, vapour barrier and flashing, as well as using the laser to set up a perfect level line throughout the basement.

Roof starts

The roofers started today (Miguel was nice enough to lift all of the materials onto the roof, which saved a bunch of time for Virgillio and his team!).  I don't expect them to finish, because, you guessed it - it's Euro Cup time and the Portuguese team is up against the wall.  Tomorrow, we'll have the rest of our roof in place!

Framing the Roof

Miguel finished the finicky truss work early and was able to do the front gables and sheeting by the end of the day.  Finally, we see (sans porch) what the front will look like, and I'm happy with it!

Inside drains passed, roof work continues

A productive day onsite again... Tony was onsite when Mohamed came to test the basement drains for code and slope.  Pass!

Miguel, still working through a stomach flu, was baking in the sun on the top of the trusses all day.  The sheeting should start late in the day so Virgilio can start either tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday morning.  Nice!

Truss assembly begins

Miguel was in today, working through bad stomach flu, to assemble and brace the truss system.  If all goes well, we can get the shingles started on Monday or Tuesday.