A Sunroom Addition and Some Welding

Tom and his crew poured the foundation for a small sunroom a couple of weeks ago. As usual, they formed and poured the footings, first:

Those orange things are Accufooting braces. We buy them in huge quantities and just had a couple of pallets of them delivered in preparation for work this spring.

This addition got tied into the original home foundation.

It was a tight fit for the mixer truck:

And the pump truck:

With a line running to the backyard:

But they made it work and got the mud flowing smoothly.

The completed footings. The rebar gets capped to make sure no one accidentally impales themselves.

And then the walls were formed and poured.

Tom’s also been doing some welding. We bought a backhoe last year. The machine works well, but it had been “rode hard and put away wet,'“ as we say out here, and in need of some TLC. Tom doesn’t like to see machines abused. He has been going through and replacing various components. It got a new seat, new lights, a thorough engine tune-up, and now he’s working on the bucket, which had some broken teeth. He ground off the old ones:

And welded on some new ones:

And now that machine will be ready for site work this spring.