Construction Update - First Floor Concrete

Got a big delivery today; the first floor came (in liquid form).

 The last week has been really busy getting all the forms, and metal reinforcements in place. We are really happy with the progress, and the engineers are satisfied with the quality of work.

The crane is proving it's worth too. It only took about 10 minutes to drive up the cement mixer and pour 2 tons of concrete! Doing this with wheelbarrows and a small on-site mixer would have taken days.

The concrete will have to set for a while, but they can start building the forms for the second floor next week. The progress over the last year and a half has been frustratingly slow for us. The approval process was expected to be slow, but it took us a lot longer then expected to find a good contractor and get them working. Thankfully, (so far) it looks like we made the right choice on the contractor, and we are really happy with our architect, and engineering work. Things are really starting to move now, and it's great to see!