10-22-08

Weather: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. 20% chance of rain.


Turner Construction is building and setting their box forms on the peremiter. They will pop a line on the inside of the form for the slab height. We have to make sure that that everyone knows not to pull measurements form the top of the form. They have to pull off of the line that Kerry pops.


Wilson Bros. is spreading gravel on the north end of the parking lot. They're hoping to get it al covered before it rains tonight.


Garrison is here organizing and sorting the conex and cleaning the site.


Bobby Deavers came by the site to drop of submitals and discuss the "K" lighting issue with John.


Ron and his crew from Sea Side Pools is on site laying out and marking for their pool and whirl pool.


We're waiting on the engineer to come out and set points for the building corners, swimming and whirl pools and pool mechanical room. He'll be here this evening to plot and said he'll be here at 7am to stake everything.

10-21-08

Weather: Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 70s. 20% chance of rain.


Wilson Bros. is setting the grade in the north parking lot.


Ronnie White (conway building inspector) came out to inspect the perimeter footers. He requested the results of the of the compaction test before we poured concrete. Carl Garner's office faxed over the results and I ran them down to Ronnie's office.


Turner Construction is getting ready to pour concrete in the footers this afternoon.


Garrison is here cleaning out and organizing the connex.


Carl Garner was out on site this morning to look at the issues concerning dry block walls and places where the sub grade is going to be spilling into the drainage ditch. He also looked at the swell that Wilson Bros is putting in the parking lot.


Todd McWilliams came by to pick up his contract.


Brett, Kerry's digger, is on site to redig the footers that have been reengineered to accommodate the pool a whirl pool.


David Wingfield came the site to look at the plans and put together a bid proposal for this job.


Brundage Bone sent a pumper truck out and Keryy poured about 90% of the outside peremiter.


Wilson Bros. started spreading gravel on the north end of the parking lot.

Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. 20% chance of rain.

Wilson Bros. arrived on site around 7 am and started working on the grade at the north end of the parking lot.


Turner construction arrived on site about 7 am and started cleaning out the rooters and setting in the steel.


Moses Plumbing came by to hook up the water to the office and connect the bladder.


We went to Home Depot to get a pump, but we had to put it back because the card number we had wasn't valid unless swiped.


Freedom Fire came out to pressurize the supply line.


Julie with the pump truck company came out to discuss where to stage the pumper.


We got some supplies to organize the office and worked on that some of the afternoon.


Conway corp. came and approved out water RPZ for the office and our temporary bladder/tank. We now have water in the office trailer.


United Rental brought a Whacker Packer out for Kerry to clean up the footers.


Kerry called in for a footer inspection for the morning.

Job log from 10-1-08 thru 10-17-08

• 10-1-08
  Engineer ( Jared Pavet ) was late this morning. Kerry Turner and Moses were waiting for him to set building points.
  
  Wilson Bros. under cut and back filled spot on the west side of the parking lot. They encountered a lot of water coming from pressure under the street.
  
  Bailey dug for conduit from Amity Rd. to the building.
  
  Moses dug their trench for the gas company. Center Point placed gas line.
  
  Freedom Fire dug for their supply line into the building and discovered that the FDC was not within 100’ from a hydrant. The FDC will now be in the north east corner of or the property out by Halter Rd.
  
  John was off site from about 10:00 am. – 2:00 pm per Joey.
  
  Jared Pavet arrived around 10:00 am
  
  Kerry Turner set baffle boards on three corners of the building.
  
  ATT came and connected the phone for the office.
  
  John met with Carl Garner from 7:00pm – 8:30 pm
  
  
  
  10-2-08
  
  Arrived on site at 7am and met with Wilson Bros., Moses, Bailey and Turner Construction.
  
  Kerry set final baffle board on north east corner of the building. They set it on the fist bump in wall from the outside of the building to be out of the way of Baileys transformer pad. Kerry started digging footers and tying steel.
  
  Wilson Bros. hauled in SB2 for the south west end of the parking lot and set the grade.
  
  Bailey started digging for conduit on the east side of the building. He passed inspection with Conway Corp. and started back filling the trenches.
  
  Freedom Fire arrived around 8:30 am and started putting a 6” lift on top of their supply line and placed the FDC in new location. Fire Marshal Randy Freeman came by and approved new location.
  
  Conway Corp. arrived around 9:00 am to put in the 1” tap by the office trailer.
  
  Moses Plumbing dug their main trunk and packed the crumbs in the trench.
  
  Chase Garret came by the site around 4:00 pm and answered question from John and Kevin w/Moses.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  10-3-08
  
  Arrived on site at 7am. Met with Mike from Moses Plumbing about where their conex would be placed. Then moved some of Kerry’s steel out of the way.
  
  Met with Robert with Wilson bros. They should be finished by noon. He said that it would be best to keep heavy trucks off of the north east end of the parking lot. There isn’t as much shale in that area.
  
  John isn’t feeling well and will on the site late. He arrived around 8 am.
  
  Todd w/ Advanced Sprinkler came on site around 9 am to mark and dig for the irrigation on the south east end of the parking lot and porte-cochere.
  
  Conway Corp. showed up around 9:30 am to set up the internet to the office trailer.
  
  Sammy Patel and a friend came by the site around 10:30 am
  
  John left the site about 11:30 am
  
  Kerry Turner is waiting to finish the footer work due to delays with the anchor bolts, base plates, plumbing and electric to stub under footing.
  
  Moses left the site around 3 pm. Mobile mini arrived around 2 pm to move their conex.
  
  Bailey left the site around 3:30 pm
  
  
  10-6-08
  
  Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. 80% chance of rain in the evening.
  
  Arrived on site at 7am and realized I forgot my keys to the office and conex.
  
  Met with Kerry turner and his digger. They are digging footers n the east side of the pad and laying steel.
  
  Jerime w/Bailey is digging the ring around the transformer pad
  
  I logged inside the router with my iPod and enabled our internet router and set up the security on it.
  
  Met with Jared Pavet. He will set the points for the elevator shaft and stake for the curbs on the south west parking lot. He left to look at prints at A & B and came back about 11:15.
  
  Found a way into the office. There was a window unlatched by the door.
  
  Royce Kirby with Webco Mining came by the site to see if we needed anything.
  
  Moses arrived on site around 8 am.
  
  Patel’s and Alan and John arrived on site around 11:30. Alan met with the Patel’s while I caught John up to speed with the site. Alan, John and I went to lunch about 1:30 and then John took Alan to Jacksonville since Alan didn’t bring a car.
  
  Kerry started setting form boards for the curbs on the south west parking lot.
  
  Moses put in their trunk line and branch offs but had to stop short because they were waiting on Otis elevator to come and drill for their shaft. Otis never arrived. Richard with Otis called me back around 4:30 to tell me that they had re routed them to OK. He said he would call John to reschedule.
  
  Bailey passed the inspection on the ringer around the transformer pad. They’re running conduit on the south end of the property line for the temporary power supply to the building area.
  
  
  10-7-08
  
  Weather: Cloudy. Highs in the low 70s. 60% chance of rain.
  
  Arrived on site at 8:30. It had rained all night and the ground is saturated. The open footers and plumbing ditches are full of water. The part of the parking lot that is graveled drained well. The rest of the site is all mud.
  
  John is in a meeting off site with Alan.
  
  Moses plumbing came by and placed a pump in their ditch.
  
  Kerry Turner came by to check the site conditions.
  
  It rained most of the day. I worked on resizing and importing prints.
  
  
  
  10-8-08
  
  Weather: Cloudy. Highs in the low 70s. 20% chance of rain. Muddy conditions.
  
  Arrived on site at 8am. Moses Plumbing is digging trenches and stubbing up.
  
  I spent most of the day reformatting and saving prints to John’s computer.
  
  Terry with Ridout came by with a lumber package quote.
  
  Steve Stark with Lumber 1 came by with a window quote. He said Joey already “pulled the trigger” on the lumber package.
  
  Talked with Richard Carlton with Otis Elevator. He said they would be out to bore their shaft tomorrow morning instead of today.
  
  Moses called in for a rough in inspection for the morning.
  
  Chase sent an email referencing that the notes from the franchise did not get transferred to the new E 1 and E 2 pages.
  
  Called Bobby with Bailey to make sure he understands to transfer notes to their new pages.
  
  Phyllis ChevReaux, former AGM from the Microtel came by to say Hi. The management Company she’s with now will be running this hotel she says.
  
  
  10-9-08
  
  Weather: Sunny. Highs in the high 70s 10% chance of rain.
  
  Moses came on site around 7 am.
  
  John sent the Otis people away and said for them to return in the morning.
  
  Laurence and Jarrod Devore from Latco came by to look at prints and visit.
  
  Bobby with Bailey came by and talked with John and the engineer about the incongruence in the lighting plans and schedule.
  
  Larry with Wilson Bros. came by to cut out the curbs.
  
  Ronnie, Conway Building Inspector, came by to inspect Moses’ rough in. He threatened John with a ticked if we didn’t spread B stone at the Halter rd. entrance. Joyce Birchfield brought 3 loads of B stone and Larry spread it with a backhoe. Kevin with Moses scraped the street clean from mud and offered to spread gravel with his bobcat.
  
  Moses passed their inspection and they are back filling their trenches.
  
  
  
  10-10-08
  
  Weather: Highs in the high 70s. 10% chance of rain.
  
  Otis’ drilling crew arrived on site around 7am. They drilled 44’ to the top of the casement. They hit water at about 22’. Roughly 400 gallons of water was pushed up out of the casement.
  
  Moses Plumbing is backfilling trenches with sand and gravel.
  
  There’s some confusion about the curb grade. Someone seems to be off 2” somewhere. Jarrod will be meeting with Kerry this evening to discuss it.
  
  Todd McWilliams came by to trench and lay conduit in the north parking lot. He’ll wait to put the piece between the islands because he doesn’t want it to get crushed.
  
  Called Bobby Deavers or the them to get conduit in Todd’s trenches before they back fill it around 1pm.
  
  Todd, John and I discussed a retaining wall at the future drive inlet at the south end at the south end of the parking lot.
  
  Ron with Sea Side Pools came by to view the site. He will meet with John again on Monday or Tuesday.
  
  Doug Smith came by to talk about supplying nails and fasteners for the job. I gave him Joey’s information.
  
  Tom with Pyramid suppliers came by to look at the prints.
  
  Made copies of the anchor bolt shop drawings and had them inserted into the office copy of the plans.
  
  Jerime came and layed conduit in the landscaper’s trenches.
  
  Justin with Freedom Fire came out to pressurize the line. He was having trouble with his pump.
  
  
  
  
  10-13-08
  
  Weather: Mostly Cloudy. Highs in the low 80s. 20% chance of rain.
  
  Bailey Electric arrived on site around 7 am. To trench for cable and telephone conduit.
  
  Kerry Turner and his digger and crew arrived on site around 7 am.
  
  It started sprinkling about 9am but then got heavier. It precipitated for about an hour and a half.
  
  United Rentals picked up the bobcat that Moses Plumbing had rented.
  
  Kerry started pouring concrete in the south west parking lot. Geometric testing came by and took four samples for testing.
  
  Joey informed John that in going with open web joists instead of “I” beams, we’re going to add 4” of rise to the building effecting the elevator quite a bit.
  
  Mark from community Bank in Jacksonville came by to tour the site and take pictures.
  
  The Patel’s came by the site around 4:45pm.
  
  
  10-14-08
  
  Weather: Mostly Cloudy. Highs in the high 70s. 30% chance of rain with showers in the morning. 0.10” of rain fell over the night and morning.
  
  Bailey Electric arrived on site around 7am.
  
  Moses Plumbing came by to pick up some equipment.
  
  Wilson Bros. arrived on site around 7 am to start setting the grade on the north parking lot and cut the curb out on the Amity Rd. entrance.
  
  Turner Construction arrived on site around 7 am and pours more of the south west parking lot. It is about 80 % done.
  
  It rained off and on for a quite a while early this morning.
  
  Brad from Southern Star Concrete came by to talk to Kerry, John and me. He made sure Kerry had the wire delivered out here when he needed it. We talked to him for about 45 minutes and worked out some delivery issues.
  
  John met with Richard Carlton for an hour and fifteen minutes discussing the elevator/floor joist issue.
  
  John Newland came by around 4 to discuss windows and doors and door hardware.
  10-15-08
  
  Weather: Mostly Clear. Highs in the low 80s. 60% chance of rain in the afternoon.
  
  Bailey arrived on site around 7am running conduit.
  
  Turner Construction arrives on site around 7 am. They are forming and pouring the approach off of Amity Rd.
  Wilson Bros is working on the grade in the north parking lot.
  
  Noticed a crack in the parking lot. John talked to Kerry about cutting the control joints 24 hours after every pour. Kerry rented a walk behind concrete saw to cut control joints that day.
  
  Wilson Bros. Engineers came out to set grade points for the north parking lot.
  
  
  
  10-16-08
  
  Weather: Cloudy and wet. Highs in the mid 60s. 60% chance of rain. 0.70” fell over night.
  
  Bobby Moses came by the site to talk to John. There should be some guys here Monday to hook to water to the office.
  
  Brian with Moses HVAC came by the site to talk to John and look at the prints.
  
  Joey and Alex came by and showed us the he wants everyone to pull measurements off the “core walls”
  
  John with GS insulation came in to talk and look at prints. They discussed insulating in between joists.
  
  Al Miller with NES Rentals came by to check and see if we needed anything. He gave us some calendars.
  
  Everett Turner came out and cut control joints in the Amity Rd. approach.
  
  James with United Rentals came by and picked up the walk behind concrete saw.
  
  
  10-17-08
  
  Weather: Mostly clear. Highs in the upper 60s. 10% of rain.
  
  Bailey Electric arrived on site around 7 am working on the under slab rough ins.
  
  Turner Construction is on site cleaning out footers.
  
  A truck with the elevator piston arrived on site about 7:45. We had no way of unloading the truck. James from United Rentals made some calls and got us a little lift out here in about an hour. We unloaded the piston that may or may not be used on this job and set it by the conex. United Rentals took the lift back.
  
  John and I worked on a rough Critical Path for the La Quinta in Bryant. Alan had called last night wanting one over night to be able to show to the Pastels in the meeting.
  
  Alan took John with him to Jacksonville to meet with the Patels. I had to run Joey over to the Fairfield because he didn’t have a vehicle.