last week was a pretty informative week. we made a decision on the pavement as well as figuring out our plumbing scheme and marking all of the anchor bolt holes for both the columns and the receivers. adam and whitney got back on tuesday, we took a hard look at the cost of asphalt relative to the importance it has to our project. just to be sure, we ran the numbers on what it would cost to pour the court in concrete, we were surprised to find that it was only 1/2 the cost of asphalt. this is due to the fact that we get a deal on concrete and have free labor. so the choice was pretty easy, we decided to go with concrete. this allowed us to contact the county for the grading, since we went with concrete we only needed the front drive graded, we will be able to make up the rest of the height with the concrete.

since the county will be coming today to grade the front we are going to have them dig field lines for the french drains. we talked with tim wanger and he suggested that we extend our lines and try to bring them to the surface to avoid any back-up from heavy rains. i am headed to tuscaloosa today to pick up the pipe for our plumbing. mark from the lions park phase III team helped me considerably on the layout for the plumbing and i am going to get it approved by the plumbing experts at northwest supply. hopefully once we have the pvc we should be able to finish the plumbing by the end of the week.

lastly, now that all the holes are marked for the anchor bolts we can start drilling them. we will probably start on friday of this week and will hopefully finish them by monday. once drilled you have to blow the dust out and then set the bolts with anchor epoxy.