Napkins at the restaurant
- M: here's your one napkin.
- J: that's not a napkin, it's a toilet paper square...
Blocks
I haven’t written much in my constructoblog lately. Been pretty busy. Quick update: foundation is in (more on that soon) and we’re moving the blocks into the foundation area so we can start building the garage walls. It’s like things are finally happening. Very happy. My arms are not very happy though, we moved 21 metric tons of blocks today and I estimated that personally I carried about 7 of those tons and walked 3km doing it. Another dozen or so tons tomorrow and we’re done. Building should commence Thursday if weather permits.
It’s 4am. Pulling an all-nighter at the building site. Haven’t done something like this in a long time.
Jon Teague’s Naadam video.
Get good grades. Today was a big gravel day. Slowly getting up the foundation trenches to the preferred height where we will pour cement and finally start building our basement. I’ve been using gravel from the local copper mine. Nice, big, large, clean, full of fools gold, big… did I say big? Gravel? Size was ok for the base of our foundation but yesterday I ran out and switched to our preferred size of 10-20mm which is probably more like 5-25 seeing the gravel… but WOW, what a difference. Shoveling is lightening fast and tamping it down firm is a dream. It was a bit more expensive than the big stuff, but totally worth it. I feel like a gravel geek these days, investigating sizes, grades, cleanliness, etc… thankfully the only gravel I’ll have to deal with after this is for our driveway and in the cement for out footing and basement walls… glad to be moving onto cement blocks and then finally wood framing in the (hopefully) near future. Gravel man out.
