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Hey friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside it is a very fun exciting busy productive
day here at the nursery and as you can see we have concrete trucks here today is the
day that the concrete gets poured for the new production Annex and to go ahead and get
the concrete and Greenhouse production number one if you are new to this project and you're
not sure what's going on check the video link above I will have one of the latest videos
that kind of explains what we are doing here up at production it is going to be a very
fun-filled busy busy day full of lots and lots of concrete I'm not even sure how many
trucks are set to arrive today it's going to be a good number it is a cloudy but very
toasty warm day here in North Carolina it's about I think they're calling to be about
like 65 degrees today we have had lots of rain so it's going to be interesting to see
how the road up here production holds up because it's gonna be interesting so those concrete
trucks weigh a lot we'll see I have a feeling we're going to have to have some gravel come
in after all this is done to repair some roads but Brenna is pulling on me I apologize for
that we're going to take you along for the ride and as we are able I will um stop talk
about what is going on but if you love machinery and seeing concrete being poured then it is
going to be a fun day for you so stay tuned [Music]
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[Music] so we are currently on truck number two of concrete these fellas are slap laying
it down this morning so I was mistaken I thought they were going to do both the annex and production
one today they're not they're only going to do the annex simply because of the size of
the job so they're going to do this one today get it all completed and then they'll come
back well I think one day this week and and finish the other one um so because it's not
just laying the concrete right so this is just the first step of the process today and
so they have to lay it smooth it come back and smooth it then it has to dry for a certain
amount of time they brush it there's so many steps it is such a complicated multi-faceted
art of laying concrete these guys are just fantastic they are working as a wonderful
team in unison together and it's a lot of fun to watch they know exactly what they're
doing and it is like I said it is a lot of fun to watch so they started here of course
on the uh I don't know far side right here at production two Greenhouse so they've started
so you can see how nice and smooth this concrete is of course it is very wet if you were to
walk on it you would sink so that would not be good and then you can see maybe a little
bit further on where it is rough so that is what has just been laid of course they have
to get it nice and level that's what they use that long two by four to get it all the
holes filled in they work together as a team to get that smoothed in filled in any little
divots you can see them raking it right so they just rake back and forth and the guys
behind them with the shovels to fill in the holes um so they get that done and then once
it's nice and level then they'll start coming back with the trials and then the float and
that's what it gives it this nice smooth look to it so this is just the beginning and I
believe there is one more truck that is set to come to finish up as far as like the amount
of concrete for today so just stay tuned we will of course keep you updated and take you
along this whole journey it is a lot of fun Bruna is having the most fun she is like way
stimulated and all these new people and sights and sounds and smells but you'll be happy
to know that she is being a very well behaved very sweet German Shepherd so she is loving
all this fun stuff another person who is loving all this fun stuff is Jackson he is an absolute
heaven right now the owners it's a father-son Duo Ernest is the dad Justin is the Son and
Mr Ernest has completely taken Jackson under his wing on this project and has really taught
him and mentored him and all of these things and Jackson I'm telling you is in seventh
heaven loves this kind of stuff so um yeah he's doing great lots of fun here at the nursery
today foreign
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we have reached a good point today to take a little bit of a break the fellas have got
all of the concrete poured it is had its first round of getting it nice and smooth and so
now is the waiting game they have to wait until it dries enough that basically they
can walk on it with their different kind of they have like different kind of little almost
like snowshoes that they'll walk on it so that it doesn't leave the footprints so they've
got to you know sit here and wait let it cure it is a little bit of a well it's a lot Cloudy
of the day of course it's cool temperatures a little bit damp so I'm sure that that will
affect the drying time on this and then they will come back and do the final smoothing
I probably will do this but they did on the greenhouse down at the nursery so I had this
great machine it kind of floats it has like this big fan blade for lack of a better word
and it just gets out any of the lines and just makes it really nice and smooth and gives
it a really really pretty look then the absolute very last thing they will do at the end of
the day is they will come back and then they will use a saw and they will cut lines in
the concrete this will go ahead and prevent any kind of cracking any stress points in
the concrete we do have to do that so they will cut it and therefore as it the concrete
you know builds pressure getting a freeze stall that kind of thing any kind of expansion
it will happen in those cracks and not give big like nasty running cracks in it so that
is what they're going to do today and then tomorrow they're going to come back and get
production one poured so we will have that as a part of the you know another video coming
in the next couple of days so stay tuned for that as always we so appreciate you thanks
for going to Creekside we'll see in the next video bye friends