It has been 2 weeks since my last entry. It seems like not much has happened. There was a holiday in there and the contractor was away for several days. But still, it feels pretty slow.
They were out working today and yesterday to fill the center of the concrete rings with dirt and compact it. It appears to be a rather labor intensive job. They can't compact more than 6" at a time, so they have to spread it around by hand, compact with the device that looks like a jackhammer, then do it again. What you see in these pictures is after two days of this.
We also found out today that the concrete that has already been poured interferes with the simplest way to do the plumbing. So, everyone is trying to figure out what to do without costing more money. The latest suggestion was to build a second wall next to the outside wall to actually hold the plumbing. Tonight Toni suggested we just run the problem vent pipe through the bathroom and build around it to look like a post. We'll run that up the flagpole tomorrow.
In the second picture you can see the general contractor, Jon, in the back and his main worker Eddie inside the ring.
You may also notice that much of the back filling has been done. And, we found out that we are really short of dirt, so that will be an unexpected added expense.
