Concrete Countertops!

Today is the day we've looking forward to for quite a while. Piper and friend Danny spent the morning pouring the cultured concrete counter tops in the kitchen. We'll wait a week form the forms to cure and grind them smooth for a perfect finish.

And the stucco continues...

The house is really coming along, and cloudy misty days made for a perfect climate to spray the stucco walls. With a crew of 5, we've spent the last few days spraying the lime and portland cement mix to the interior and exterior of the north, south and east walls.

There's certainly a science behind the process, some walls receive just the portland lime mix, while others will only have the earth plaster. It a seriously messy process but all we can see is the beauty the form is taking. Piper made sure I took pictures of just how messy the site was.

The sprayer shoots the mix out onto the walls like large curd cottage cheese and then gets a troweling to create a smooth and beautiful surface. Piper manned the sprayer hose, which when filled with concrete weighs about a whopping 60-100 pounds. Good thing he's a professional strongman.

Hopefully we'll be wrapping up the remaining walls in the next week or so and then on to the interior!!

Finishing

Just slapping the finishing touches on the pad.

6 inches of concrete

2 concrete trucks, 6 guys, and 2 and a half hours later, we have ourselves a concrete pad. The finishers are putting on the final touches and we had some left over crete for a few patio blocks and a concrete pig. Time for a patio party!!

Down the Chute

Getting an early morning start, the concrete truck arrived and with the help of friends, the ICF walls were filled with concrete by 10am. The threat of rain held off and now we're ready to work on the plumbing.