Incredible concrete pour is complete!

Today they poured the last section of the planned concrete for the Freeport home.  What an ordeal.  The house is on an island with only one way on and off overland, and you have to go over a bridge that is being decommissioned.  So there is a weight limit on it of 10 tons (20k lbs).  An empty concrete truck is 32k lbs so my contractor brought in a local gas powered cement mixer and extra labor and they poured the majority of the slabs by hand.

They mixed it up to be 3500 PSI and added fiberglass strands to the mix for better crack reduction.

We can pretty much walk around the entire back yard now without leaving the patio.  Everything outside of the pink portion is new pour.  Those 4 pillars will hold up the roof over the outdoor kitchen.  We live in a hurricane zone so everything I put in is overkill.

You can see the drain for the outdoor kitchen poking up.  It is tied into the septic.

I can now back the truck with dive tanks all the way back to the dock.

That portion to the right was difficult to mow and would get swampy after a rain.  Problem now solved.  The raised pad is for the 2nd AC condenser.

I'll enclose this area for the generator, my big compressor, etc.  Once done I won't need to leave any expensive tools outside.

This is all new pour as well.

There is a fiberglass jacuzzi tub over on the dock that will be installed where these electrical and water pipes come out of the concrete.  Should be nice in the evenings looking out over the canal enjoying the jacuzzi.  I don't want to take care of a pool or a hot tub so I will fill this up, use it for a few days at a time and then just dump it into the canal.  No muss no fuss.

Another view of the jacuzzi pad.

Now that all of the concrete work is done I need to get busy and install my dock lights.  These are commercial grade steel tapered streetlights I ordered direct from China.  The bare poles weigh about 300 lbs each which is why I have those two big concrete pedestals (prewired of course).  More on that later.

I'll leave you with this shot of Taino Beach as seen this past week when I was taking a midnight walk.  This is 0.2 miles from the house as the crow flies and 0.25 miles from the house by road.  This is why we moved to Freeport.