Recent content by mrbond

So I made the mistake of contracting with National Barn, Eastern Division in Portland, TN on July 2. It took them over 12 weeks to deliver basic building materials. And even then they fork lift damaged at least two of the metal panels. They argued over the phone the metal has a protective...

The gravel base is also a little troubling. They are using gravel to level the site. So on the shallow end, there's 4-5 inches, the standard in this area. But at the other end, there's 10 inches. And the builder claims that the bobcat driving over it is good enough compaction. They didn't...

For whatever reason, they left a two inch strip of grass on that side of the footer. It should have been removed, imo.

Here's a couple of more pictures. Notice how the forms are uneven here, yielding an uneven brick ledge on the outside of the forms?

Thanks for all the replies guys. Here's a picture, showing that they dug out on the outside of the former (after I complained). Aren't we really using left over concrete for a brick ledge? How will it be level? Won't the former vertical supports leave a void in what will be the brick ledge?

A builder is building a 2 story, all brick garage/workshop/pool house--whatever you want to call it. The foundation is a monolithic slab, with footers. This is in the Middle Tennessee area. The builder dug the footers. And put up formers along the edge of the footers. On the outside of the...