Compact(or) Parking Only

Yesterday we finished spreading and leveling the gravel that arrived Monday.  We started using the borrowed compactor but had a little issue. First we had to scramble to try and find a filter for it, because the one we had with it was caked with dust.  It also seemingly turns out the compactor doesn't like running on water puddles, which with the way the weather has been this summer is unavoidable. Unfortunately that put too much strain on the belt, and we killed it.  So, luckily, Weider's Hardware was open (even though it was a holiday), and they had a rental compactor for about $35 for a day. We quickly snapped it up and got to work.  

Matt Running the Rental

Nice and Flat

All done with the gravel!

You can see that the garage area is raised up a little from the rest. This is because we won't be getting radiant heat in the garage, so we won't have pex tubing laid there. So, there is extra gravel to keep everything level once the slab is poured.

We worked our butts off to get everything done yesterday because we had expected the guys from Roth Green Energy to show up today to start installing the radiant tubing. Unfortunately, we found out this morning that another job ran over (gee, it couldn't have had anything to do with all the rain we've been having, could it? What a summer...), so they couldn't do it today.  Hopefully next week.  But the work will not stop for us, as we will spend this weekend building forms to prepare for pouring the slab.  It's all Up from here!!!

Updated budget:
+ $35.00 for 1 day compactor rental
TOTAL SPENT SO FAR: $46,673.80