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Charley Creek Inn Site Sign
The marketing department at Charley Creek Inn put together a nice site sign for the project. Thanks guys! We appreciate the acknowledgement. The banner format is a nice idea we haven’t tried before. It will give us some options for moving it around as the project progresses. I hung it on the construction fence at the east side of the project for now. Looks good!
Heated Drive and Walk
This is a project that we completed late last year. We tore out the old asphalt driveway and apron. We tore out a couple of walks and stairs. We replaced the walks and drives with sand set pavers, cobblestone for the drive and brick for the walks, on a 12″ base of crushed limestone. At the end of the drive at the road, we poured a 6″ thick concrete apron. We poured another concrete apron at the approach to the garage. The stairs are pavers on a concrete base. In the sand between the bottom of the pavers and the limestone base, we installed plastic tubing in 150′ to 200′ lengths. We also ran the tubing through the concrete aprons and on the treads of the stairs. These tubes were connected manifolds in boxes around the perimeter. Then home run lines were connected back to the boiler system in the garage.
A glycol fluid mix is used in the system to prevent freezing when the system isn’t running. Sensors in the pavers turn the system on when they detect moisture (snow, ice, freezing rain) and when the ambient air temperature is below freezing. The pictures here were taken Friday morning after the mix of snow and freezing rain we had Thursday night. The driveway is in better shape than the State Highway it accesses!
The sensors were strategically (hopefully) placed to account for areas where there might be blowing snow accumulating when there might not be snow on the entire drive. The system is also laid out in zones for better control.
The boilers are variable speed and can reduce speed and temperature when the load calls for that. There are two boilers and there is also the capability to shut one off completely if the load isn’t there.
This has been a challenging project and we’re still working a few bugs out. In the end, this driveway should never see another snow plow and the walks should always be clear.
Additional pictures below.
Charley Creek Inn Ground Breaking
From Left to Right: Brent Martin – SRKM Architecture, Jeff Kumfer – SRKM Architecture, Steve Downs – Executive Director, Wabash Marketplace, Inc., Shelby McLaughlin – Project Manager, Wabash Marketplace, Inc., Mayor Bob Vanlandingham, Kevin Berger – Easterday Construction Co., Inc., Dan Ford – Charley Creek Foundation, Howard Kaler – General Manager, Charley Creek Inn, Christine Flohr – Executive Director, Visit Wabash County (CVB), Mark Noble – Charley Creek Inn
We broke out the gold shovels and held a ground breaking ceremony for the Charley Creek Inn expansion project on December 16th. Those shovels have successfully started many projects for us and we have no doubt that they will bring us good luck again. Thanks to all that came out to celebrate the event.
Demolition of the existing building is complete and preliminary site work is complete. We are planning to start concrete work the first week in January.
Blast From the Past – LaPaz Garden Court
Ran across this ad in the Pilot News the other day. LaPaz Garden Court was completed by Easterday Construction Co., Inc. in 2010. It was the 6th Garden Court facility we built from the ground up.
Due to a late start, this project got caught by weather and was shut down for several months through the winter. Despite that we were still able to make the completion date without extensions.
We are proud of our association with Garden Court and are fortunate to continue to count them as a client.
Culver Post Office
Dedication marker on the south side of the Culver Elementary School Gym which credits R. L. Easterday Construction with the construction in 1929.
Jeff Kenny borrowed a box of pictures I was given by the Culver Post Office a few years ago. He plans to scan them for the history museum. I’ve scanned them all including a large quantity of construction records from the project showing draws and wage rates. All of it is extremely interesting and provides a glimpse into the early history of our family business. Our early history is somewhat sketchy and our earliest project record we have is the concrete marker on the Culver Elementary School Gym which credits us with the construction in 1929. (It was the High School gym then, long before the school consolidation.)
Culver Post Office under construction
Jeff’s Throw Back Thursday article on the Culver Post Office gives some history of the site and includes a few pictures, one of which I included to here to the left. Purusing through the records from the project, I’m not sure if anyone who worked on it is alive today, but I doubt it. It was a depression era project and I have heard family stories of my great grandfather, Russell Easterday, taking the overnight train to Washington, D.C. with submittals and bids for government work during that time. At that time in our early history, the offices for the company were on the second floor of the State Exchange Bank building (currently First Farmers Bank & Trust). The current building at 402 North Slate Street was constructed on Russell’s farm in the 1950’s.
Image Source: Jeff Kenny – The Pilot News
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