May 5th, 2007
May 3rd
Hi…today is Thursday and I was not home much today to see what was happening. BUT, I think Adrew and crew had a fair amount of trouble getting the access holes cut between the new and old crawl space. They are supposed to be cutting 2’x2′ holes in three places through the existing foundation wall so that we have can acces to, and run plumbing, electrical etc through to the new areas. The initial plan was to "score" the concrete from both sides with concrete saws and then it should be able to be popped out–sounds simple right…well this only works if you can actually cut the concrete from both sides which quickly became an imposiibility when they realized how much smoke, debris and toxic air the saws created as they sliced through the concrete. There was absolutely no way they would be able to SAFELY operate the saws down in the crawl…so that left them with cutting from one side (the outside) only and the saws did not have big enough blades to cut all the way through the 8" foundation. They tried a few different tools, but the consensus at the end of the day was they needed more jack hammers…SO…that makes tomorrow another VERY noisy day…Oh well…I won’t be home to have to listen to it!
