Dang! Not the progress I would have hoped for, but, still all stuff that had to be done!

 

Moving forward again. Driveway forms are all up, pouring first thing tomorrow:

 

that looks like a lot of driveway

 

This pour is a hair under 2000 SF. The original RV driveway extension we added to get part of the way back here was a hair under 1000. Still plan to add a wrap around the right side to connect to that back garage door at some point in the future, so thats why it hangs off the right side of the garage so much.

Downside is its almost all travel driveway, not a place to actually park as 2 cars can't fit side by side on it. Thats the bad thing about putting the garage so far back on the lot.

Oh well, at least my daughter will enjoy it - plenty of place to bike and skate.

 

And the pour is done. 43 yards total for this section.

 

What do they charge for concrete these days per yard.???

 

WOW! And like that, the concrete is in place!

 

We've got a family friend that works for one of the big local concrete places and their typical load from their plant is about $175/yd. Depends on strength, add ins, customer volume, etc of course.

Installed, these were a little under $300/yd for the garage and about $375/yd for the driveway. Both 4000 psi, power floated, saw cut joints, pumped to site, and sealer just on the driveway. Garage was cheaper because we did all of the prep work, they just showed up and poured it.


Ill say, the owner of this concrete place is a beast. One man show doing all of the prep work over 2 days in the full hot sun. 7-5 both days, no breaks, no stopping for lunch. Had the full crew out for the pour though.

Only thing I did to help on the driveway was to build the Ufer ground so he could just drop it in place (couldn't put it in the garage slab due to the vapor barrier).

 

Man oh man, another monster garage going up. Have been watching your progress her n there, this new rev elation made me sit back and do a woah!, nicely done. That is some serious concrete footage, like a Maverick Gas Station / store, okay not quite, yet non the less very impressive amount you have. Guess after its not too green (28 day cure time?) or shorter in Az you can start standing up walls. Going to be intersesting to see what tricks you are up to. Has to have a few with all the effort you are putting into this build. When you say $300 a yard, are you talking a square yard 3' x 3'? That number had to have been a gulp factor. Congrats on reaching this milestone, keep leaning into it, one glorious day it will be done.

 

At this point, its well past where I wanted to start building. I think we're closing on 2 full months by now since the garage was poured. Just getting pulled in too many different directions lately. Going to get moving very soon - studs will be here Wednesday and I've taken next week off to crank through as much framing as I can.

I'm surprised how fast they build on them out here. Watching some of these new subdivisions go up, they're raising walls next day. Granted 1 day at 16% strength is still like 400+ psi for typical concrete, but Id still be worried about having a wall get hung up on a J bolt or something lifting it in place.

Definitely no tricks here, lol. First time doing any actual building framing, so its going to be a rough learn as I go process. I'll just be happy to minimize the amount of rework needed.

Its a cubic yard - 3'x3'x3'. I guess thats how they order how much per truck, up to a max of 10 for the size trucks they run around here.

Still pretty expensive stuff. I never got a quote for paying someone to do the garage slab 100% from scratch as it would've eaten up way too much of the budget. I tried to do as much prep labor as we possibly could to try to keep the paid labor down to just pouring/ finishing.

Between the garage slab and this driveway extension, its already nearly 50% of my budget for the whole job.