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26 Jan. 2009185 viewsStripping off all the wood forms is next on the list to get the site ready for the floor panels.pklongball
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29 Jan. 2009184 viewsThe crew is taking a short break waiting for the next batch of concrete from the mixer.pklongball
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3 Feb 2009184 viewsA little push here and a grunt there and the concrete panel gets moved into position. No high tech machines here just plenty of grunt workpklongball
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3 Feb 2009183 viewsCarrying the panels from the stack to the house floor takes 4 Thai men and some sweat. They only have about 60 more to go.pklongball
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Friday the 13th182 viewsThe floor pour as of about 1230 with just the front balcony area to finishpklongball
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Friday the 13th178 viewsThe Bucket brigade passing the concrete to finish the balcony. This section took about 4 hours to finish.pklongball
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26 Jan. 2009175 viewsThe crew is hard at it stripping off the wood forms exposing all the new concrete beamspklongball
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Friday the 13th175 viewsI hated to see this pour stop in the middle of a room like this and left to start curing before the finish but not much I could do about it. At least it only stayed like this for an hour or so.pklongball
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3 Feb 2009174 viewsThis is how they do it on my house. Plenty of manual laborpklongball
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8 February 2009171 viewsA long view of the site as it looked today.pklongball
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Friday the 13th170 viewsWell several more days have passed and the team has finished the prep work for the floor and today they brought in the trucks of concrete to finish the floor and this stage of the build. The builder under-estimated the quantity and ran short to finish the floor by about half a truck. So they ended the pour by mixing the rest by hand. Apple explained he made the floor thicker than he planned and that he did not take the extra thickness into account when he ordered the concrete.pklongball
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Friday the 13th168 viewsHard work to smooth out the fresh concretepklongball
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