I went to United Rentals today to reserve a concrete buggy only to find out that they no longer sell concrete. I was relying on this, and took for granted that I could always buy it one yard at a time from them. There are two concrete companies in town that deliver it in ten yard cement trucks with a five yard minimum. They also charge extra to cross the Interestate, half a mile from my house. I wasn't too excited about dealing with them for a three yard delivery and while mentioning this to a friend, I found out about another company that I didn't know existed.
He has 20 years experience doing commercial concrete and after the big concrete companies joined together, he saw a need for a small guy to come in and do smaller jobs, but also be able to do bigger jobs for less. He has quite a few trucks by what I could tell, and they don't have a minimum. Buy one yard or hundreds!!!
Concrete will be $115 a yard and it will be here tomorrow.
Home Depot wants $3.50 each for ten foot sticks of 3/8 rebar, also called #3 rebar. He has 20 ft sticks for $3.60 each, so I bought 20 sticks from him.
Then I cut and tied my rebar.
I'm putting it on 2 ft centers. I doubled it in my footings and extended it outside the forms so it can be tied into the dam and the footing outside the spillway. For the block wall, I put in one stick for every other hole. On the dam side, I added an extra stick so there is rebar in every hole for the first three holes of block. My thinking is that this will add strength to the dam when the water level is full and pressing up against the dam.
While I worked, Oscar went for a swim!!!
Eddie
