Excavation is done. Footer forms going in. Prom

Tim Longsdon (Fremont Concrete) finished the initial excavation work on Tuesday. Luckily (or unluckily) it didn't rain as was forecast on Sunday. Neal Smart (Castle Timber Homes) and Pat Tomas (Tomas Construction) will be on site today strategizing on the logistics for the footers and stem walls (basement walls). The plan is for the footer forms to go in tomorrow with the inspection on Monday, then the pour. The stem wall forms will then be placed the end of next week, with the inspection and pour (probably pumping) of the concrete coming the week of May 8.

Our design calls for a 9' basement height. Because of this Tim was not able to do that portion of the work.

We will also need to decide on the penetration points for the water, electric and sewage during the stem wall form setup. So my next trip up will be next Friday.

This weekend is planned out as Derek has Prom and I am the chauffeur. Derek picked up his tux last night at Mens Warehouse. He goes through quite a transformation when he puts it on. Our little boy really is a man.

A couple of interesting data points on the tux business for Mens Warehouse (currently one of only two national rental providers);

• Tux's are 'built' in a 1M sq/ft facility in Houston. There is also a complete in house cleaners and laundry on site)
• Tux's are on a 3 week rotation between rentals to accommodate the return, cleaning, re-build and delivery to the store.
• Tux's are picked up at the store on Sunday (after the promers, grooms return them). Then the trucks turn around and deliver the next weeks tuxs to the store for Wednesday deliver to the customer.
• The largest number of tuxs out of one store for one weekend is 900 (Phoenix). The Park Meadows store is delivering 400 for this weekends proms.

Till next time.

Pat