Today saw us take a leap forward, the towns engineer came and gave us the go ahead to carry on, I was never really worried about it, but one can never tell, anyway, without his say so, you cannot proceed.
BETON PUMP TRUCK ARRIVES
STRANGE HOW THEY ALWAYS COME IN PAIRSMidday, true to the timetable the first delivery of liquid concrete arrived, 15 minutes later we were pouring it into the form. 45 minutes the job took, then the next hour was spent tidying things up and smoothing things out.
STARTING TO FILL THE MOULD
True to form, as in the last time, it rained while we were pouring, it only eased off once the mass was down, well, it takes a couple of hours before it starts to harden, so we had plenty of working time over, it was counted quite precisely, just how much we needed, 8 cubic metres, we had a few teaspoons left over, still that's the way it should be, nothing harder to get rid off than a chunk of concrete.
SMOOTHING IT DOWN, this makes the bricklaying much easier
JIM AND ARI, discussing whats next.
That's the first stage of the build taken care off, hopefully, if I have measured correctly and got the heights in the right level, it should be fairly straightforward for the next stage, I would like to emphasize at this point, if you do a good foundation, then everything else falls into place neatly, a mistake follows you throughout the build, just because most of it is hidden, does not mean it is unimportant.
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Interesting Jim. Where over here most of our basements are poured cement. Though my dad's house (1957) was cinder block, but not with the system you use. It leaked terribly the first spring. Many of the new basements are poured but in a styro-foam insulating form that is left on for the insulation.I have the feeling that housing standards are more strict in your area than here in Winnipeg.
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