I finally broke down and contracted with a company to concrete the remainder of my driveway, build a new bridge, and add an additional concrete drive to the rear entrance to my barn as well as go ahead and pour the floor behind my barn where I'm going to add on this summer. I figured I'd go ahead and bite the bullet and just get all the concrete work out of the way all at one time.
Weather permitting, they will be starting late next week. I'm curious to see the concrete pumper truck they have that can reach 160'. I'm doing the main part of my driveway 12' wide, 6" thick, 5000 psi concrete, #5 rebar reinforcement (thicker stuff), and my bridge decking being all #8 rebar reinforced with 12" of 5000 psi concrete. It looks like from the calculations that I'll use about 315 yards of concrete total. The company I'm using says that unless there are weather delays, they should be able to do the job in four days. If anyone is curious I can post some pictures of the progress as I am able (I won't be there the entire time they are working).
I know I need to call and stop mail delivery back to my house, UPS, and FedEx. Anybody else? I need to get permission to park at a neighboring church for about ten days while this is being done. Since I have to cross a creek, I also need to setup some sort of temporary bridge to walk across. Hmm, the span is around 20'. That could create an issue. I wonder if the wife would mind if I bought the whole family some hip waders?
Anything else I need to consider before this starts?
Weather permitting, they will be starting late next week. I'm curious to see the concrete pumper truck they have that can reach 160'. I'm doing the main part of my driveway 12' wide, 6" thick, 5000 psi concrete, #5 rebar reinforcement (thicker stuff), and my bridge decking being all #8 rebar reinforced with 12" of 5000 psi concrete. It looks like from the calculations that I'll use about 315 yards of concrete total. The company I'm using says that unless there are weather delays, they should be able to do the job in four days. If anyone is curious I can post some pictures of the progress as I am able (I won't be there the entire time they are working).
I know I need to call and stop mail delivery back to my house, UPS, and FedEx. Anybody else? I need to get permission to park at a neighboring church for about ten days while this is being done. Since I have to cross a creek, I also need to setup some sort of temporary bridge to walk across. Hmm, the span is around 20'. That could create an issue. I wonder if the wife would mind if I bought the whole family some hip waders?
Anything else I need to consider before this starts?