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skyking

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Plumbing inspection: check
electrical inspection: check
We got rain today which was not helpful. The clay is the kind that balls up on your boots to epic levels, sticks to everything.
Struggled through and got all the extra telecoms and water line sleeve and my dark fiber pipe down there, in the equipment room wall.
I have a crew of 6 tomorrow, counting myself. Hopefully the rain does not screw it up too bad.
Track out is a big issue and I have a dozen loads of rock to bring in, or more. I have 9 tons of 4"~8" spalls on the truck now and will put those down, and I'll get another to extend the spalls construction ramp to help. I'll back my way in if needed and stay on the clean, but I need to get two boxes to the finish crew in the basement. That means jumping in there and getting some mud on the tires.
 

skyking

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I had a heck of a time getting the safety guy to the quarry and finally got checked out on noon Friday. Talk about cutting that close!
I had ordered up a D3XL dozer to do the road rock.
My friend Mike ran the dozer while I ran for rock.
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I had put together a big crew for Saturday. At one time we had 7 working :)
Lee and Issac put up the forms that he had been cutting, from form ply I had salvaged 11 years ago at the SR520 job.
Jamie came up and cut down the plumbing and set the floor sink in the equipment room.
Teresa ran out 120 excavator and Don at the grade rod. Teresa has a 35 and does fine work, and that was the first time she ran anything bigger than the 35. She knocked it out of the park and they got it done and to grade and compacted.
My second round was 5/8" to get them started.
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They needed a second box of 5/8" and also lots of supervision, so I did not get all the road rock hauled.
I had a 3 ton roller delivered to hammer it all.
First two loads down were 4~8" gabion quarry spalls for the construction entrance, and then we got 6 loads of 4" minus down.
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Mike had a different vision going by that fir tree, and he cuffed off the sod and softened it a bit so I do not have to build as much wall. It is a good plan.
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skyking

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Mike stripped a ton more and tucked it around the trees to the south out of the way to get as much prepared as possible.
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I took the dozer down to the borrow pit to take advantage of two machines, and tucked all the strippings in that I had dumped previous.
Monday morning I got started early and hauled 6 loads from that pile above and cleaned that up.
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then two more boxes out of that area by the fir tree, with extra challenge points to not harm the limbs.

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I hauled in two more loads of 3" minus and tailgated it out and laid it down with the dozer and got as far as was stripped. All those strippings just about leveled off the borrow pit.
 
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skyking

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That was Monday. Sunday my ironworker friend came and tied all the iron that he had done takeoffs for earlier, and I had cut and bent at a local shop.
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We set the elevator pit form Sunday and got that poured yesterday. I dug a ramp to get the 120 close enough and used the bucket as a poor man's pump truck to reach it.
Don had done the vapor barrier Monday, and yesterday my brother joined in and we got the heat sheet insulation done a little after dark. Pex tubing today and inspection, #3 bar mat, and pour tomorrow.
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tcsenter

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Hmmm...I'm not seeing provision for the discreet or concealed subterranean survival bunker/panic room/mancave cellar or partial basement?
 
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skyking

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That's a full basement. If I want to make something like you're speaking of, I can dig into the bank over here. I have 30' of elevation change on the property so that kind of a thing would be easy if I were so inclined.
here is a better perspective looking in from the daylight end. There is about 18" of fill on the right, and 4' of fill on the left to the first floor grade.
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Micrornd

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So no "stub-ups", everything's flush?
Is the plan to weathertight the shell before the weather rolls in and then work the interior in the winter?
 

skyking

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So no "stub-ups", everything's flush?
Is the plan to weathertight the shell before the weather rolls in and then work the interior in the winter?
We don't get that much weather in Sequim. Annual rain is 16". I have some work work to do, so the framing may happen November-December.
It is odd not seeing any plumbing, rebar, or bolts poking up.
It is all there, cut down about a half inch below the finish. That allows the finishers to make a vastly superior product.
I got approval to epoxy the 36" tall #4 bar that sticks up into the ICFs.
If the finishers have to work around that and all the pipe, it is never really that flat.
I had an electrical inspection prior to pour for remoting the main service, solar panel disconnect, and RSD switch to the NW corner. Here it is disappearing below grade.
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It is really easy to spot it, besides having it all laid out in wall lines etc.
It dries out really quickly over those stubs I will post pictures.
The PEX tubing I cut 2" square rips of insulation, drilled a hole in it, stuffed it over each run and wired it down just below grade. Smack the thin mud with a hammer and bend it up *When I want to*
That is the key, we are doing the ICF off rolling scaffold and I will leave it nice and smooth until I want it up. PEX deteriorates in sunlight so I will leave it down till needed.
 
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Greenman

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We don't get that much weather in Sequim. Annual rain is 16". I have some work work to do, so the framing may happen November-December.

It is all there, cut down about a half inch below the finish. That allows the finishers to make a vastly superior product.
I got approval to epoxy the 36" tall #4 bar that sticks up into the ICFs.
If the finishers have to work around that and all the pipe, it is never really that flat.
I had an electrical inspection prior to pour for remoting the main service, solar panel disconnect, and RSD switch to the NW corner. Here it is disappearing below grade.
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It is really easy to spot it, besides having it all laid out in wall lines etc.
It dries out really quickly over those stubs I will post pictures.
The PEX tubing I cut 2" square rips of insulation, drilled a hole in it, stuffed it over each run and wired it down just below grade. Smack the thin mud with a hammer and bend it up *When I want to*
That is the key, we are doing the ICF off rolling scaffold and I will leave it nice and smooth until I want it up. PEX deteriorates in sunlight so I will leave it down till needed.
Interesting approach. In my entire career I only did 3 slab foundations, all of which were engineered to death. The last one was 12" slab with a double mat of #5 rebar 12"OC and 3 sides stubbed up 48" to tie in a 9' concrete wall. We tied steel for days.
 

skyking

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We will get the first two courses of ICF blocks shimmed and glued down tomorrow. If we go 3 high, that will start all the window bucks. The sill height is 39¨ so they are all egress windows. All lintels are the same, 11.5" at the top of the wall.
It puts the window and door bucks at 87" for most of them, 4´0 x 4´0 windows except for one in a taller wall section.
That one is in a window well and will be 5´ high.
 

Micrornd

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I got approval to epoxy the 36" tall #4 bar that sticks up into the ICFs.
We can do that here, but rebar must continue (with min. 18" lap) all the way to the tie beam and then those cells must have a "cleanout" (one side of that cell on the foundation open (knocked out, with no mortar in the cell) and those cells "pour" with the tie beam to make it continuous.
(BTW - we are not supposed to say "pour", water "pours", concrete is "placed" :rolleyes: )