Zkribbler's House -- Watch it being built!

[Solomwi]

That mix looks a good bit coarser than grout, Lancer. How much of the concrete is being mixed on-site (or are my eyes just deceiving me on the mix)?

[Lancer]

That mix looks a good bit coarser than grout, Lancer. How much of the concrete is being mixed on-site (or are my eyes just deceiving me on the mix)?

All of it. There in no delivery here. Can you explain what you mean?

[Zkribbler]

I'm irked that your plan got misdirected, that's all.
..

Not to worry. There's going to be misdirections. It's unavoidable with me being 1/3 of the way around the world and viewing the construction in delayed time through a camera lens.

Most of the misdirections so far have been minor. Some, like the band of decorator brink around the top of the laundryroom are quite attractive.

If there's ever a major oopsie that I can't stand, we can always rip it our and redo it.

And believe me, I appreciate all your efforts on this

[Lancer]

I asked Sho about the electric. To get it all we need is to buy a pole from Boheco Electric, have their guy wire it then run the wire from the pole to the laundry. (after which its all underground) Also there's some sort of permit but Sho can get that. Then you could get $10 internet right at the site which you'll need anyway someday and we can teach someone to take a pic or two of the work every hour and upload it to Poly and we could make sure the work is right wherever we are.

The electric we'll need for the powertools anyway.

Waddaya think?

[Solomwi]

All of it. There in no delivery here. Can you explain what you mean?

That was what I was wondering, whether all of it was being mixed on site because of no available delivery or there was some other reason that all/some of it was being mixed on site. Of course, a third option was that I was just reading the picture wrong.

What part do you want explained? The first sentence was because I saw masonry work in the background, and the context in which I'm used to seeing mixers on site is mortar/grout, but the mix looked like it had larger aggregate than that.

[Lancer]

That was what I was wondering, whether all of it was being mixed on site because of no available delivery or there was some other reason that all/some of it was being mixed on site. Of course, a third option was that I was just reading the picture wrong.

What part do you want explained? The first sentence was because I saw masonry work in the background, and the context in which I'm used to seeing mixers on site is mortar/grout, but the mix looked like it had larger aggregate than that.

Oh I see, I was wondering why the mix should be like grout.

When they built my place in Pondol which is a 5 bedroom house they had no mixer but mixed it all by hand with shovels! Amazing... So now we have a mixer which I got when the huge road widening project was finished. A nice diesel mixer for $400.

I take it you do some cement work Solomwi?

[Solomwi]

Oh I see, I was wondering why the mix should be like grout.

When they built my place in Pondol which is a 5 bedroom house they had no mixer but mixed it all by hand with shovels! Amazing... So now we have a mixer which I got when the huge road widening project was finished. A nice diesel mixer for $400.

I take it you do some cement work Solomwi?

Used to. Did grunt work for a concrete company summers during college (actually working on the plants more than working with concrete), then worked in asphalt after graduation, which of course still brought me in close contact with concrete work, and moved to a block manufacturer after that, all before giving up and going to law school, of course . Methods and techniques still interest me, though, particularly where the most modern of them aren't available.

Yeah, it doesn't take much imagination to see that mixer being a fantastic investment. Hand-mixing reminds me of some of the lab work I did. Fortunately, we only had to do enough to make a few test cylinders.

[Zkribbler]

I asked Sho about the electric. To get it all we need is to buy a pole from Boheco Electric, have their guy wire it then run the wire from the pole to the laundry. (after which its all underground) Also there's some sort of permit but Sho can get that. Then you could get $10 internet right at the site which you'll need anyway someday and we can teach someone to take a pic or two of the work every hour and upload it to Poly and we could make sure the work is right wherever we are.

The electric we'll need for the powertools anyway.

Waddaya think?

I thought we already had electricity to run the mixer and power saw...but sure. Electricity is a good thing. With a permit, even better.

The internet thingie sounds good too, but what are you going to use for a computer? My laptop died again last week. I was going to put it in the next box to see if Aeson could resurrect it. If so, you could use it. My best guess tho is that Aeson will say, "Suck the data off the hard drive and scrap that piece of junk."

[Aeson]

They're mixing concrete for the seawall/steps with the mixer in that picture.

I haven't watched them at work on the mortar for the brick, but it's gotta be a different mix given the outcome. I doubt they use the mixer for it either.

[Lancer]

Sounds like you've had an interesting career Solomwi. Its good to have a basis in construction so that you can know what you're looking at. Then the law school makes you able to defend yourself...

Zkrib, that's a good question about the comp. I have an extra but I don't really want to leave it in the laundry with the cement dust etc. We could put your internet router at my Garcia property and leave my extra comp there. Whoever is cooking is there anyway and goes to the jobsite to bring snacks every 2 hours. No biggy to take a few pics... Then when your place is up we move your router down there.

That means pics aprox every two hours, you like?

Malou would have to learn but when Tina takes over end of next month she knows everything already, enjoys the pics, and has a Poly login.

[Lancer]

Dang. Us guys can get in trouble when we're only trying to help the ladies.

[Solomwi]

They're mixing concrete for the seawall/steps with the mixer in that picture.

I haven't watched them at work on the mortar for the brick, but it's gotta be a different mix given the outcome. I doubt they use the mixer for it either.

Definitely a different mix. Much smaller aggregate in the mortar, for starters. Generally, mortar uses just sand, for obvious reasons, while "regular" concrete, like that in the picture, takes stone and sand. That also makes mortar easier to mix by hand, so it would make sense to use the mixer for the concrete instead.

Interesting is one word for it, Lancer. And it's only spanned about 15 years so far.

[Zkribbler]

That means pics aprox every two hours, you like?

Ya. But to be honest, 95% of the time, I can't really figure out what's going on from just the pictures. For example, I don't know if I'd have picked up that the steps were two meters wide instead of one. While I did notice the missing inner seawall, it turns out it was actually there, just not in any of the shots.

Still, having pix is better than not having pix.

[Lancer]

That will likely change when the house is building. Then the things you're looking at will be much more familiar. Also, I'll be able to see here in Pondol too.

Plus, when you get here we just move it down the road and you have internet.

So I'll ask Sho to have em put in the electric and ask Theresa to put the internet and we'll teach Malou how to put pics on Poly maybe using Tina's login for a month if its ok with her.

I see a future where you can check pics when you get up at night and I can check in Pondol and civ without worries of what's going on.

[Lancer]

Actually btw you were right about the inner wall, it wasn't there. The pic I responded to your question with was the guys digging the trench for the inner wall. They had just started on it, and it wasn't really there at all.