Check out how we plan to deal with the rock on this Rocky Mountain foundation installation in Nederland, CO

• 0:32 - 0:43 Hey Michael, Jessie here. We're out here at your job site. AJ's here. Miguel is here get some quick shots of them get the plans in there. • 0:46 - 0:50 Miguel is a master at these layouts and.

• 0:51 - 1:04 He taught AJ had to pull layouts, but we're back in the day. Anyway, so we have a discrepancy on the plans here. This is showing 20 feet wide on the on the existing house outside of. •

1:05 - 1:35 Outside of wall to outside wall and it's actually only 17 feet and change. So the 20 feet is there. So basically we're off by about 3 feet in terms of how these walls measure up across the bottom here versus up here. So this is 33 30 feet 3 inches and then if we pull these off of we pull these Corners off of this existing house, like it's indicated on the plans. We come up Shy to the tune of about two and a half feet. So,.

• 1:35 - 2:05 Basically need to make a decision and age is arguing that you don't want to shrink your house which nobody does. So we're going to go with the the wider and the larger of the two and we're going to assume that the house is actually wider than it is. So now we've gone through and we've pulled these out pulled these layout points. And what what what that means is we are going to actually have to get back in here and widen this out a little bit and because we're going to have to get back in here and widen this out. Anyway, we also.

• 2:05 - 2:35 So are we really we just have to break out a little bit of rock here? You know, I was hoping that we might be able to get to a stage here where we're going to be all right to pour but as it turns out, you know that's are outside of footing there in AJ has virtually no room to work in the back there to get his form boards up to strip them to do construction back in there. And so we're essentially going to have to get in here and take.

• 2:36 - 3:05 I think it's not going to be much and this is going to chip out quite quickly with the with the rock hammer and I'm guesstimating, you know, probably two hours of breaking Rock give or take and then we'll have the excavator in here to clean up the shrapnel. Let me know what you think of the idea of just taking that rock and Fanning it out down here into the crawl space and creating creating a level path somewhere. • 3:06 - 3:24 You're going to have mechanical things in here. We can put it down into that bottom corner, but just give you a level pad somewhere with with our Rock shrapnel that we're going to take out of there so you can have some some nice surfaces for for you some of your account mechanical equipment in here. This is where we're.

• 3:27 - 3:49 Guesstimating finished floor elevation just just for grins. We pull the string level across over here. But basically what I'd like to do then is as you can see this is this is where I'm guesstimating are counter for it to be this is 4 feet back. I think this is a little bit shy because AJ pulled his layout here, and this is outside of footing.

• 3:50 - 4:19 So this is more like two-and-a-half to three feet never take so this is probably a little bit shy this is a guesstimation that Becky and I did and then here's the other one basically right here. You know, I think we're doing a little bit better over here with our Rock So at the very least you just need to Chisel out a little bit of rock here. We need to widen out that corner due to that discrepancy in the plans and.

• 4:23 - 4:50 Yeah, that's the long and short of it. There's liable to be, you know, we're basically at our estimated budget of what we were shooting for right now. So we are we are exceeding Our Hope for Budget at this point and as we discussed before we got started the big X Factor was going to be the rock as it is we were able to rip out a lot of this Rock With The Ripping tooth and some rock teeth and a lot of hard work from Becky and.

• 4:50 - 5:02 And at this point we'll have a relatively minimal Rock breaking expense. It'll be above and beyond our hope for Target budget, but. • 5:04 - 5:28 Yes, that's where we're at with it. We should be able to keep things rocking and rolling and get back up in here this week. I'm going to anticipating and then AJ should be able to take over and work next week Monday or Tuesday, when actually the weather is getting warmer. It's going to be above freezing AJ. What do you think next week? Looks like we got warm weather. It's not even going to get below freezing during the night. So.

• 5:34 - 6:02 And so I think we should be able to turn the jobsite back over to Monday, which you got a nice long long warm stretch of weather. We have everything here all the materials here. There's enough rebar for more than the walls. All right. All right, that's it. So Michael call me and we'll talk about it and you give me the holy blessing also. Can you keep running for a second? We are going to need once once we get this fizzled out. We're going to go ahead and.

• 6:04 - 6:33 Well, basically what we're asking for is for the holy blessing from the engineer and so we can send this video on to the engineer as well. But we'd like to just dial into this and and have this this exposed Bedrock be our our counter Fort and so what we would need is a speck from the engineers to how deep he'd like us to go. I think a foot would probably be plenty of I don't know how realistic that is. Do we go for eight inches we go for six inches. Is there a speck?

• 6:35 - 7:03 How it's all rock. Yeah, so face is well, we could we could leave a void up there and not back the hundred percent of the way as well just to maintain our bra step. I mean we could backfill just to here and leave that as a little bored or how to be alone for foot cord, or it could either be filled with gravel and.


• 7:04 - 7:21 Walk away with some drainage or you know, it could be swelled out and just have it be whatever but that that would be an option to as far as if we wanted to concern ourselves with the strength and the retaining capacity of this wall through the wait what not. But either keep it drained. I don't think it means anything.

• 7:22 - 7:35 But that's not enough on it. So as you started building forms, he's gotten to the point now where he's ready to start doing the rebar and be good time for you guys to check in Michael and AJ.