Yay! The concrete guys showed up and we now have a floor. They poured on Friday and came back Saturday morning to score the concrete. It looks like our floor has giant 10'×10' tiles.
That means we are done with our gc. He'll be by this week sometime to take off the forms and clean up some other stuff. Now it's up to us (and Jeff) to build the rest. In 2 weeks our quonset should be up. We'll spend the next ten days assembling arches on the ground. Excited to be moving
Where to begin...
We did run in to another really big snafu. Steelmaster made a big error (which they never really admitted). They did not engineer our building correctly. So, for those thinking of using Steelmaster let me attempt to give you some words of wisdom.
Don't only talk to the folks in the sales department (they don't really know as much as you would hope).
Let them know if there is a tree anywhere near where you are building (although one of the engineers told my husband they Google map you to check this).
Get a written agreement from them that out the steel you receive isn't engineered quick that they will take care of it.
Many phone calls, emails, frustration and extra expense happened to us because of all this. I'm not terribly impressed. (Oh and they won't take back the incorrect steel, i got told to try and sell it on Craigslist. Yay for customer service)
Now that we have the correct gauge steel we can move on, or so we thought. Excavation and foundation happened pretty quick.
And then we waited and waited and waited. In the meantime we dig trenches for our over-engineered slab. It's been a busy construction season here in Colorado and we've waited about 6 weeks for flat work.
Fast forward to this week. Suddenly, we were informed that everything was a go. On Monday the 14th (happy birthday to me) the gc laid the insulation for the slab and put up the forms.
Tuesday the 15th the plumber came out to lay the pex for our hydronic radiant infloor heat.
Wednesday the 16th (today) inspections happens with a couple minor issues that we will have fixed before the pour on Thursday, nope, now it's Friday (i don't care as long as someone shows up!)
In all this waiting time we left the Bailey cabin under pretty stressful conditions, but have settled nicely in to our travel trailer. We have made more trips to dump slash then i can count. The dog has a fenced area. The kid has a play area. And honestly, it just feels good to be on our own land!
I will try to update more frequently now that i am over my anger/frustration with Steelmaster.
