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Picture above: (left) The footing has to be removed, it is in the middle of the car port and is NOT on the blue print! The boots (hung on the rebar) were filled with water! (middle) This picture speaks for itself. (right) Lower-level bathroom window.
November 16, 2006- Rick calls, he is at Bo Atabey. I ask him what he thought of the work on the job site? I tell him that people go on the property, look around (in total disbelief of the quality of the concrete work) and his business sign is there at the end of the driveway for ALL to see and what is his comment? "We are not here to earn a living." You have got to be kidding me, right? at this point I am in total shock and speechless, at his comment, and all I can say is, "you should had told us this before we hired you!" and hand the phone over to Bob. This is what happens when the job site has absolutely no supervision, no foreman and the person in charge "that is not here to earn a living" is snoozing in Michigan!
December 7, 2006- The upper level wall is to be poured today, but Majestic is out of concrete, again. Maybe the end of the month. Meanwhile, we get prices for metal roofing and samples. We also get prices for cypress for the ceiling. I would LOVE mahogany beams, but mahogany is way over our budget.
December 14, 2006- More good news, three of the footings, for the porch, according to the blue prints should be 12" thick with #5 rebar, when actually they are 6" thick with #4 rebar, this means they will have to be ripped out and done over.......another curse!!!
December 21, 2006- Last week we placed an order with Kingsley-Bate for teak furniture. This morning we place a concrete order with Campania (planters, water fountains and terra-cotta) this afternoon we send out two pallets of water gardening supplies, all will be headed to the caribbean to the sunny island of St John. When we were there in October we checked out a location for a sister business (for the winter months) across from the mangroves in Coral Harbour. The building is rundown, but we could see the potential! I guess the building use to be called "Pickles" how cute!
We will be on St John for the months of January and February setting up a new business, as well as sanding and staining cypress for the ceiling of Bo Atabey. I almost forgot, another good reason for our business being at this location is that we can see Bo Atabey and from Bo Atabey we can see the building.... Pickles!
Today we get a bill for the excavation of the upper level.. $12k ouch!! ($300.00 per hour when the hammer is used) Oh yeah, the wrong size porch footing was taken out. We are still waiting for the upper level wall to be poured, maybe the beginning of January, maybe not!

Picture above: (Left and center) The location of our sister business across from the Mangroves on Coral Harbour. (right) view of Bo Atabey from this location, the red roof building pictured on the left is The Moravian Church.
Picture below: (Left, center and right) Caribbean Custom Concrete poured the WRONG size footing and used the wrong size rebar, HUMMM.. you wonder HOW it passed inspection??!! The wrong size concrete footing is getting "MASHED" by the $300.00 per hour hammer!!! F.Y.I. The word "mashed" is a West Indian term. Some West Indian words predate current usage in North America, unchanged since the time of pirates and indentured servants. (How to LIVE in the Caribbean, by Sidney Hunt)