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For all the work that went so quickly in the beginning, the last 3 weeks of little to nothing have been driving me nuts. The last 3 days have been whirlwind again.
Final backfill and forms are in:
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The pour starts:
Me, my youngest and the Concrete contractor
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a little over 1000sf of deck:
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I'm so impressed every time I see that type of concrete deck that you build over there.
Congrats to a beautyful build that judged from the pics been built with precision! One thing I wonder though. where is the rebars on under the deck? Or did you use a glass fibre reinforced type of concrete?
 
Henry,
Sadly they don't rebar the deck. It is also not the fiber reinforced kind. If I had the extra budget I might have done the deck a little different. I wish I had let the dirt compact another 3 weeks after the final backfill. It sat 3 weeks after the first backfill but not the final. I also wish I had made sure the concrete guy but the foam expansion joint in between the deck and the coping. By the time I caught that, it was too late to fix 0c:
All in all I am very pleased and, more importantly, the wife and kiddos are very happy (c:
 
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