Concrete Slab Poured
After the footers and the stemwall have had a chance to firm up, we come back in a couple of days to pour the concrete slab for the entry way and the garage floor. We poured at 7:30am using a full concrete truck and a pumper. Concrete pumps are used when the area needing concrete is too far to reach. The hose you see the workers carrying is the pump hose. Concrete is transferred from the truck to the pump and then to the area needing the concrete.
Concrete is a composite material composed of coarse granular material (the aggregate or filler) embedded in a hard matrix of material (the cement or binder) that fills the space among the aggregate particles and glues them together.
Next up on this job…we begin the framing of the garage and entry way after the concrete has had a chance to dry a little.