The concrete pump truck came again! This time it came to pump the final floor on the duplex.
Here's what it looked like with the walls up on the first floor. I know, it's really high for a first floor, but remember, there are storage containers at the very bottom ground level.
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| Top floor is prepared to receive concrete. Stairway also ready. |
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| Prepared floor as seen from the inside stairway. |
The pump truck installed itself on the RFIS side of the wall, and extended the boom over the wall so the concrete would land on the upper floor of the duplex.
Concrete was pumped over the wall and onto the floor
About 4 truckloads in about 4 hours and the floor was nearly done.
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| Smooth it out -- the holes (right) are the inside stairways for each side of the duplex. |
When the last truck had pumped its load, it was clear that we needed just a little bit more. So they guys had to mix up about 5 sacs of cement to finish the job.
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| Not quite enough concrete in the truck to finish the job |
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| Before leaving, the pump truck dumped what was in its system, like a big elephant plop on the ground. The guys wheeled it by wheel barrel over to the duplex -- so glad they didn't have to do the whole floor that way! |
