Back To It; The Shop Rises

After a week in the North Woods on a lake straddling the Wisconsin Michigan boarder, we got back to work on our property in S. Ill.

Our pole building contractor, Rick, was scheduled to  begin the shop building on Monday, August 6 and they got right to work.  In our absence, Jason had done a final grade on the site; providing a much leveler pad for the building.  Before this work, the place where we laid out the building had a 2.5 foot elevation difference from corner to corner.  Jason got it very close to level with a bit of cutting and filling.

We chose pole construction because of it's efficient use of time and materials.  It certainly did go fast.
It looked like this by Tuesday evening, almost ready for gravel and concrete:

The one thing we needed to do before the concrete could go in was to install the perimeter foam insulation.
I talked about this in the previous post.  Go back if you missed it.

We scheduled the concrete at this point (no roof trusses) so that the gravel truck and concrete truck could back into the building to dump.  I planned a bathroom in one corner, but knew I wouldn't have time to rough-in the plumbing before the concrete pour, so I set a couple of forms to pour it later.  The gravel base was set, and the concrete was poured.