11/18/08 - 11/24/08

11/18/08

From Country Inn and Suites

Weather: Sunny and cold. Highs in the 40s


Turner Construction is on site cleaning up their trade. The three pier points on the meeting room area on the east wall are off. They are about two feet too far to the east. Jared is supposed to be coming out to see who set the points. Kerry will have to cut and hammer the needed area.


Moixx Construction is on site laying out their plan and measuring and popping lines on the slab.


Ed Wiley with Wilson Bros. came by to see when they would need to come back out and backfill behind the curbs. John said he couldn't give an answer rightn now.


Moixx found some anchor bolt points that where out of place. Jared Pavett came out to verify the problem.


Kerry rented a jack hammer to cut out some concrete in a couple of spots.


Moixx layed out their stuff and should be ready to hang steel tomorrow.


Seaside Pools is setting the coping around the whirl pool and swimming pool.


11/19/08


Seaside Pools is setting the coping around the swimming and whirl pools. they had to wait until later in the morning because of the tempature.


Moixx hung iron columns on the south end of the building and finished laying out their lines.

Turner Construction was chipping some concrete and drilling the correct spot for the anchor bolt points.


I left around 11:30 for a meeting in Ft. Smith with Joey and Alan.


John left around 2:00 to go home for a funeral. Gary Farris is on site to supervise.


11/20/08


John is in Bentonville for a funeral. He'll be back in town this evening.



Moixx is on site setting columns. Mike Andrews had to go to Fastenal to get something to sue for shims.


Seaside Pools is grouting the coping around the pool.


Moses Plumbing is here installing the floor drain around the pool and connecting the fill and drain lines to and from the pool.


Turner Construction is chipping and cutting concrete in the elevator pit. They are getting ready to pour concrete around the pools and mechanical room tomorrow.


Jerime with Bailey came out to put a hard nipple on the stub out for the temporary power. Seasid pools wanted to run conduit for their lights later. Jerime layed the spot out for them.


Conway corp. came out and made our 6" tap into the man hole.

Kevin with Moses gave me a copy of the CAD file lay out sheet that they layed everything off of. The framers can use it measure off of. It is not to scale.


11/21/08


Turner Construction poured the remainder of the slab around the pool area. It took 70 yds. They put 2% calcium in the mix. They worked the slab until around 8 in the morning.


Moixx Construction brought in a few more guys to help hang steel.


Kevin with Moses connected the building sewer to the tap that Conway Corp. made on Thursday.


Southland's framing crew was here snapping lines and laying things out this afternoon.


I unloaded 7 lumber trucks yesterday and today.


11/24/08


Weather: Mostly clouldy. Showers in the morning. Highs in the upper 50s. Wet and muddy conditions.


Moixx Construction is hanging steel. they have a crew of 3 guys on site.


Turner Construction is on site cleaning up misc. stuff.


Alan and John met with the Patels around 11:00


Todd with Advanced Sprinkler is on site with his crew working on the the dry block wall in the back.

11/12/08 - 11/17/08

11/12/08


It rained a little over an inch last night and today. The site was really muddy and wet this morning. Kerry Turner and come of the guys came out and set knock outs around the anchor bolt points.


I called Bobby Deavers about getting someone out here tomorrow to double check their conduit and placements of floor plugs.


Five Star pest control came out around 10 to spray the remainder of the foundation.


11/13/08


Weather: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s. Very foggy and wet.


Turner Construction is on sire spreading gravel and g etting ready to pour concrete in the floor of the elevator pit today.


Bailey Electric is on site finishing their conduit and putting in floor boxes.


Mic from Magnum Materials came by and took John, Gary and myself out for lunch.


James with United Rentals came by and talked to John about why Joey hasn't been communicating with him.


Jarred Pavett is on site checking a few points and setting the corners of the elevator pit. He'll double check the finished floor elevation and the elevator shaft.


Kerry has got a transit and tripod on our account at Ridout. He brought me the reciept. Kerry brought me the rest of the tickets from the concrete pours around 5:30


11/14/08


Weather: Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 60s. Very foggy with a chance of rain in the afternoon.


Kerry and his guys are setting the last forms and setting the final finished floor elevation on the form boards.


Brad with Southern Star got us a pump truck from Harris and Harris out here around 8:30


Jerime with Bailey was here this morning double checking and finalizing everything that he had set.


I placed the PVC elbow that Mike Cordiss with Moses Plumbing left for us.


We cut down the washing machine trough down to 6'3" instead of 8'. An 8' trough cannot fit into a 7'6" pad.


John ordered concrete at 3500 PSI so that it will be stronger and we will be able to drive equipment on it Monday when the steel erectors arrive.


Kerry poured 268 yds of concrete on the slab. We rented two light towers on out account with NES and Kerry will pay back the ammount.


NES Rentals exchanged sky tracks with us and delivered the light towers aout 3 this afternoon.


A very hard, windy cold rain came in about 4 pm. It rained for about 3 hours. Kerry and his crew finished the slab around 2:15am.


11/17/08


Kerry Turner and his crew are wrecking forms and cutting control joints in the slab, and cleaning up their trade today.


Moixx Construction is sorting the steel and sending the columns that need to be cut to Conway steel to be retrofitted.

11/10/08 - 11/11/08

Turner construction worked the weekend and dug the remainder of the interior footers and pads for the steel columns.

Today they brought in a pump truck to pour all the rest of the concrete on the inside of the building. They set the anchor bolts in the building

It rained the rest of the day and night.

11/11/08

It rained an inch and a quarter.

Kerry and his guys ran a sting in the wrong spot. They're digging to correct that.


Todd came out to check on the site and gave us jackets from Advanced Sprinkler.


Joey, Alan, John and the Patels had their bi-weekly meeting in the office on site.


Jarred Pavett came out to double check anchor bolt spots and remark the ones that are incorrect.

11/7/08

Weather: Mostly clear and sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.


It rained half of the day yesterday. The sight was muddy. Office work was accomplished.


Seaside Pools is on site this morning setting up to spray the Gunnite on the whirl pool and swimming pool.


Turner Constuction is on sight to finish digging the interior footers and peirs.

11/5/08

Weather: Mostly Clear, highs in the high 70s.


Jarred Pavatt came on site about 7 am. He's still setting points for anchor bolts, and the elevator pit.


Turner Construction is on site building knock outs and templates for the anchor bolts.


Seaside pools is going to pour the floors of the whirl pool and swimming pool this morning. They're waiting on an inspection of the ground wires before they cam spray gunnite on the walls.


Advanced Sprinkler is working on the dry block wall going in on the south and east sides of the building. An engineer from the city is supposed to come and look at the part of the storm drain wall that is falling in on the east side.


John, Alan, Alex and Joey had a meeting over lunch.



John, Joey, Alan, the Patels, the bank, and engineers met on site for a long time this afternoon.



Turner Construction poured 75 % of the interior footers and peirs and set anchore bolts.

11/3/08 - 11/4/08

Turner Constuction is spreading gravel and getting everything ready to pour concrete. Jerime with Bailey, John and I noticed that the Finished floor line that was popped on the form boards, was going downhill. They checked it out with a transit and their transit had been off when they set the line. They corrected it. No damage was done.


Moses Plumbing was out here Sunday to measure and finalize their stubouts to make sure they're correct.


Jerime and Brad from Bailey were here laying conduit and double checking their conduit and making sure everything is ok for the concrete.


Seaside pool guys are out here running PVC for the pool and whirl pool and setting rebar in the whirl pool.


We heard from Brett McDaniels from Conway corp and found out they needed a diagram on how we were going to build the dry block wall and permission from the owners that they have right to remove what's in their way to repair the sewer line. John drew up a diagram and signed permission from Andy Patel and we got it down to to Conway corp for approval.




11/4/08


Turner Construciton is laying out vaper barrier and wire getting ready to pour concrete. They had to dig the elevator pit out a little bit to make room for the form boards that they had built.


Todd McWilliams and his crew have been here day digging the footer for the dry block wall going up on the south and east sides of the building. The fallen in strorm drain in the back of the building on the east side is becoming an issue. Gary Fayson will come by tomorrow to have a look at it and decide what we need to do.


Conway Corp is supposed to be here in the next few days to make the 6 inch tap into the sewer line.


Edwardo with Seaside pools told me that the inspector from the health dept. is coming this afternoon to look at the pool and the whirl pool. They are hoping to pour floor of the swimming and whirl pools tomorrow.


Garrison has been on site today policing the area and cleaning up.


Jarrod Pavet has been here since early this morning plotting for the anchor bolts because there are not sufficiant dimensions on the plans.


Richard Carlton with Otis Elevator came on site today to look at the elevator pit and doubel check the form boards for the pit walls and sump pit.

10-27-08 thru 10-31-08

Wednesday, the pool company showed up. They were supposed to come in on Monday, then Tuesday. Their truck broke down on Wednesday and they didn't arrive until the afternoon. They layed the pool out on Wednesday and started digging Thursday morning. Their backhoe broke down Thursday morning and they are waiting on a part to come in.


Kerry Turner has most of the interior piers layed out and most of the form boards set for the building slab.


Jerime with Bailey installed out night watchman outside the office trailer, layed some conduit to the north end of the property and adjusted the conduit that he had running up into room #127.


Cleaned up the site and thew away all of the trash that was in the connex.


Built the frame and construction sign and dug the holes for it. Built a box around our R.P.Z. and stuffed it full of insulation.


10/28/08


The pool company is still waiting on a part for their backhoe.


Kerry Turner is diffing for the interior piers and footings.


Jerime with Bailey is adjusting conduit for the electric, telephone and cable.


John is in a meeting with the MEP guys and the framing and sheetrock at the Microtel.


Shawn Stone with Newstone Door and specialty installations came by the office to look at prints for the Country Inn and Suites, La Quinta and Microtel Searcy.


Supposed to meet with Brett Acres around 11:20 to give him his check and have him sign and notarize a lien waiver.


Checked on John's computer at Best Buy. They said the hardware tests were going well. They may need to run some software test as well. They will call John this evening to give him a status report.


Joey, Alan, Chase John and the Patels had a meeting at our office on site.


Two fellows from a granite installation company came by around 1:00 to meet with Alan and Joey and John.


Brett Acres came by to sign and notarize the lien waiver and pick up his check for hauling off out spoils.


an RSC rep. came by the office to check and see if we needed anything.


Jerime with Bailey told me that he wanted to know when and who was digging the elevator pit. He wants to run conduit in the concrete walls.


10/29/08


Kerry Turner had about 10 guys on site to form and pour part of the north parking lot and dig pads for the piers and footers.


Jarrod Pavet is setting points for the curbs on the north parking lot.


Jerime and Brad with Bailey are trenching for the new telephone conduit that is running to the north east corner pedestal per ATT.


Seaside Poos showed up on site around 10:00. Edwardo took down our construction fencing and drove the dump truck on the Amity Rd. approach.


10/29/08


Todd McWilliams came by the site around 10:00 to look over the placement of the dry block wall along the south and east sides of the building.


The hard drive on John's computer is failing. I spent 30 minutes on the phone with customer service ordering recovery discs for the operating system. They should be shipped to Best Buy on the 31st. We purchased a 250g external HD to back up all out data.


Seaside pools dug the entire swimming pool.


Todd McWilliams and Brad with Advanced Sprinkler came out and met with Conway Block to discuss the dry block wall on the south and east sides of the building.


10/30/08


Kerry Turner is cutting control points in the concrete that he poured yesterday. They are still digging footers and piers in the building pad. Mic is having to be very careful because of all of the underground plumbing and conduit that is stubbed up out of the ground.


Phillip from a water proofing and caulking company came by to look at the cracks in the parking lot. they will come out after we are finished with everything and caulk all the cracks at once.


Seaside pools finished digging the whirl pool and swimming pool yesterday. They are laying gravel down inside the pool and will be running the pipes that they need to run into the pool mechanical room. John and I layed out the two back corners of the mechanical room.


Brett Acre is bringing out 2 loads of SB2 for Kerry to start spreading on the building pad.


Moses Plumbing is on site to move and fix a couple of pipes. They'll be getting ready to set floor drains, the elevator pit pump, and finish everything that goes under the slab. This also includes pipes running to the pool for water and drains.


10/31/08


Turner Construction is on site spreading gravel and digging interior footings.


Jerime and Brad with Bailey is on site putting in Conduit for under slab and floor plugs.


Todd and Brad with Advanced Sprinkler have started digging their footer for the retaining wall.


Alex came by the office and had a long meeting with John.


Conway Corp. came out to meet with Todd and Brad and me about their easment on the sewer line. There may be an issue with building a perminant structure on top of the sewer line such as the sundeck and the retaining wall. We met with Brett McDaniel who is the water system engineer and Leslie Guffey. They will try to have a resolution by Monday.


I picked up John's computer from Best Buy.


I moved John's furniture into his apartment and put his bed together and let his computer there for him.