When we purchased Purgatory there was a really old and unsafe dog kennel on the property. One of the very first projects Agent Smith and his father tackled was removing the roof and supporting structure, leaving just the concrete pad exposed. When we had the driveway redone, the same outfit quoted us just $2K to break up the old pad (on which we had staged some of the wall blocks (pic 2) and thus hastened its demise). Since this was $5K-8K less than the other quotes we’d gotten for a 10×10 pad plus removal of the old, we went for it. So in January, the crew broke up the old pad and pushed the rubble just north of the old kennel area. They also did the form work at that time.
Then, after the little water main snafu and half a foot of rain, we waited. Finally in early March, a small crew came and, since it was just a small job, they mixed the concrete with a small rental mixer instead of a large truck like we had for the wall project. The end result (last pic) is a nice, sturdy pad upon which we will soon place a diesel 20kw/hr generator. (That little project stalled out due to exorbitant quotes for trenching that we remedied by just buying our own trencher, but more on that later.)
