Tubing and the Float

All,

I am wiped out...  3 hours sleep last night preparing tubing layout (measurements of every nook and crany). 

Hit the lot at 0800 this morning just a couple degrees above freezing.  Frost on everything.  Black "poly" slicker than snot. 

Long day,  we were able to get 3 circuits done and then an extra manifold set wired up for our next adventure. 

Float guys showed up and pretty much got the slab ready for pour.  They stayed until 2000 and worked in the dark to finish.   I held a flashlight and froze to death while they worked their rears off in short sleve shirts.  They were actually cold when they got done, but I felt sure that holding the flashlight so they could read the measuring tapes, levels, etc. and see where they were pounding was in my best interest and theirs. 

I am no ways near ready to pour concrete.  Still need to hire an electrician (long story), who has to set the floor outlets and island power.  Also don't have a temporary electric pole, so they have been working off generators.

We have probably 3 full days left of tubing work, plus some future electrical feeds I want to put in place...

1. 1.5 inch conduit in 2 places for future pool equipment
2. 1.5 inch conduit for future workshop
3. 1.5 inch conduti for aerobic septic system
4. landscape light feeds to front and rear
5. sprinkler timer electrical feeds to front, rear, and rainwater collection system pump.

Those will take me a 1/4 day if everybody leaves me alone.

I put some NO TRESPASSING signs in front.  Too much going on right now for the gawkers to step on, and the ICF is coming next.  I really don't want people even close to that stuff before it is poured.

It is interesting to see what shows up on the camera system we have in place.  Friends, and you know who you are, you are welcome. 

Ok, here are some pictures.  I'm too tired to explain anything.  You will have to figure it out on your own.  My fingers are bloody from the 600 zip ties I tied...

Oh, except for one explanation... Dad, the first picture is how they floated the garage.  Form guys couldn't figure out a good way to deal with the slope out the side of the garage for those 3 doors and then also with the slope out the back of the shop... So after some thought, we decided it would work good to make the shop actually level with no slope, but for that single garage door now has a ramp that drops 2 inches over 3 feet.  The picture shows the giant wedge they made for this purpose.   The concrete guys will actually blend all these slopes together so there isn't any sudden bumps anywhere.   These guys were amazing...

OH, and anybody that is wondering why I have green T posts in my house (8 of them acutally) they will be cut out later and the manifolds mounted to framing.


Good night...