Commercial construction work pictures

[skyking1]

I put about 6" of this black 5/8" looks like grindings. A very ginger touch on the hoe pack, then I shot the inverts in the 3 T's to see how much it moved. Sitting in a 1:1 slope of pea gravel, I expected it to move a little.
The middle T was 0, the near end was -0.15" and the far tee was -0.50" as referenced from a 1% slope. With a foot of fall over the 100' run I'm good with that. My guess is I lifted the middle a bit.


That 8" has to wait for the form and pour and strip, that's looking like 2-3 weeks. I picked the perfect month to start my pension. It is so slow, I just left it all there, dump truck and all.
I will need shoring for the next dig there. It is barely 5' deep but it is all soft import that will play heck keeping out of the bottom. I will see if I can rent a 4x15 steel box that I can drag along. The shortest side runs are 15' so that will be workable.
No inspection needed so I will trunk in the main run and just bury combos in pea gravel, hammer it, then dig the side branches.
It is a wierd setup with formed and poured CB's that capture trench drains, and the sides of the CB's are in tensioned pours so no traditional CB would work. The pipe pops in the bottom vertically.

 

[skyking1]

I wanted 30" spreaders but settled for 36".
It's a 4x16 and weighs 4600, which is doable with the 120.
I have a single set of speed shoring and two jacks to do the cleanout outside of the footings.

 

[skyking1]

We got the outside done without the shoring. The site guys have used a bunch of this black non-spec material and dolled it all up just for me to tear it to shreds.




They screwed up and did not arrange for any help. The plumber is older than me and pretty stove up. He was done in by the end of the day.

We get a couple of helpers tomorrow, which is good. Pointless to gear up without the help.

 

[skyking1]

I got my box of rocks within reach. All good.
This is the end of the line set. Then I got to come dig back at it from the sides. The only way to do it's the backfill and then dig it back up again.

 

[skyking1]

Or so I had planned. I started looking at it and hey, I can reach the end of that trench if I straddle the box.



I reached that, then went around and dug against the side of the box, and pulled a notch away from it on my side. then I got back beyond it and stabbed it out of there. Reset across the other ditch and Sam cleaned up the last little bit into the bucket.

 

[skyking1]

We're doing the last couple while they're pouring out one of the pools there.



Plumbers and their string lines.

 

[CM1995]

SK that glacial material looks very similar to the river gravel in Costa Rica. Volcanic in nature, worn and rounded by tumbling down the river to the Pacific Ocean. Great material to work with. Probably hauled in 5-6K yards to fill in a development many years ago.

 

[skyking1]

That's all import from somewhere up north. They exed out a bunch of unsuitable nice soils. Remember the lake?

Water testing

 

[skyking1]

We got the deep stuff in first per rule #1. This is the sanitary, and that trench is half in the deep trench.
I dug it far enough for a 20', and then turned around and worked back to that.
The plan was bury that 20' except for the couplings so the inspector can eyeball that. That was my escape path.

I set the laser so it could shoot over the track, and then nosed right up to the forms to reach the orange marks and bring it under that hairpin and the 8 pack of rebar for the tension tie across the building.

 

[skyking1]

I have been buying pea gravel for this job and getting reimbursed for it from the closest pit, Miles Sand and Gravel in Shelton. It has a phone to the office for remote scale operations.They are a big outfit around here, and I think their name should have something to do with the miles of conveyors they use!
Driving out along the bank run coming to the plant.



add a conveyor and a bend. That's State Route 101 overhead.


on the other side it goes like the energizer bunny.
Then it turns up into the mine site.

 

[skyking1]

You can find their sites all over, some with tunnels under the road for the conveyors as they expand outward from the plant. They don't move the plant to the rock, they move the rock to the plant.


They sell a lot of concrete and go through a bunch of sand. They have a fleet of double belly dumps to haul it to the plants, and they get it at the sand pit near Roy. This is the only sand dredge setup I have seen in fresh water. It has one of those conveyor through the pipe runs that would be a bugger to work on.

 

[skyking1]

They did not make it easy. We added a few inches of crushed and compacted it against the newly poured pool wall.

We buried the pipe in several tons of pea gravel and capped it with some more crushed to give it a foot of cover. The site guys can take it from there.



I used some gentle swing persuasion to pull the pipe into the long bell joint.




The site guys need access to start backfilling Monday, so I buried that stick and left the joints exposed for the inspector. That usually works OK.

 

[skyking1]

working on 16
@Truck Shop bays or so of new building @ Frightliner. 250' of trench drains and 450' of pipe to hook them up.




It's all in and spring lined ++ and waiting for inspection Friday.

 

[RocketScott]

Went there a few times to buy oil. they were busy back then, nice to see them expanding. Bought my trailer from pro truck on the other side of 167, if you're looking for a project they've got plenty

 

[skyking1]

We got the last big pipe in today, and the GC asked us to backfill that area all the way up to a level for the electricians to keep going. We did that T & M.
Always a fun time dodging carpenters without a clue. One guy was working on top of that poured wall where the back of my bucket had to go to dump material. That bump out had me long tossing and one time, he jumped back like I was going to swat him. How about stay the @##$ out of my way for a few minutes?
That one Dumb Bass I had to give a head's up more than once.



yes that guy is stripping forms right in front of my track, in the bind.

We made some grade for sparky.

 

[skyking1]

The shop bays are about ready to go gray.




I was up working on a short addition groundwork.
Part of it is moving the sewer connection through the new building to outside of it. This green pipe does not meet code for pipe inside the building footprint. We had to locate it and dig alongside for the replacement DWV pipe. The building behind is live so it will get cut in quickly once they are all ready. Note that it is not straight. They bent it a little bit at each joint, making it fun to dig alongside without hitting it.

 

[skyking1]

We met my wife's cousin's for monthly breakfast. Only a couple showed up today and we are not meeting in July and August because everybody gets busy.
I took my own car and then exercised some of the freedom that makes this job bearable. We were scheduled to backfill this groundwork on Monday, and a pair of rain events are rapidly approaching from out on the Pacific. It is going to dump 1"~2" over Sunday and Monday afternoons.
I would much rather do this in the dry. We did not have big plans and I had a pleasant busy morning and afternoon getting it done. The product is better, and I'm not going to fight the rain on Monday. I don't care a whit about overtime, I am logging my work hours in terms of days. I still made it home in time to mow the lawn.

Same view after hammering in the stuff. I had rough backfilled it Friday night after they tied it in, just to make the hole safer.
I caught the plumber by surprise, he had not pulled the test and glued in the plug so I left this little hole open. Those three slopes are hammered tight.


There is the groundwork in the distance. A pair of bathrooms and a break room sink against the building. So much nicer to have it healed before the rain.

 

[CM1995]

I wish all plumbers would do there digging and backfill like this.

Great job!

 

[skyking1]

Thank you.
The groundworks guys were there today too. They had the same ideas. Work today and skip both Monday and Tuesday. The rest of the week looks good.
We had brought two rain leaders out and backfilled them, just out of the building.
That would be the same distance out as the clean out above in orange.
I pulled the excess and crap dirt just out of the building proper and covered it.
The piers are for a huge canopy in front of the building.
They knew they would make a big mess with the rain, so they proactively tied one in, and put in an 8' flex pipe over to a CB to contain the water until they can set another CB.
A third rain leader got nailed by the geopier drillers, and if they had not fixed it the downspout pipe would have backed up something fierce. I had explored and found that one for them. They fixed it and all that roof rain is under control.
Proactive thinking wins the week.

 

[skyking1]

I'm up working on the cabin job probably for a couple of weeks. It'll be good to get something done for a change.