fresh home build coming soon

[skyking]

Hoping to "place" the concrete tomorrow

 

[Greenman]

I'd pour it.

 

[Micrornd]

I'd pour it.

Yea, you would

 

[skyking]

Today was the day. It rained a bit and I and the concrete company were concerned about access, so I picked up 11 tons of 3" minus and made a pad for the trucks to back into the pump.




I remembered a sleeve for the future EV charging station. I hole sawed inside and then used the end of the pipe to bore into the other side of the block, then foamed that in and pinned it with a couple of screws.

It penciled out at 29.2 yards but 3 trucks was not enough and they sent out 1 more yard.
We plumbed up the walls after the second truck, and figured we were good on that. The alignment system was outside and we had preloaded it out to have it properly prepared.

 

[skyking]

we were wrong. That last couple of feet and the vibrator moved the high east wall about 1.5" out of plumb and nobody spotted that.
We were cruising around with the scaffolding, setting in the anchor bolts when I spotted it.
Pulling on it with the alignment system just pulled the stakes out, and our efforts with wedging it in from the inside were fruitless.
I've done a whole lot of strange and crazy things as an excavator operator for the last 35 years, but never did I imagine this.

I had to knock down the 200 yard pile enough to get close, and I pulled on the wall in 3 places. Jacob held a 2x6 against the wall until I got pressure on it and we pulled it back into shape, then reset the alignment.
We got it done.

 

[Hans Gruber]

Do you have a rendering for what the finished product will look like?

 

[skyking]

nothing 3d, here is the south elevation.
That 4x5 window is in the well there.
Because of the hung joists in the east end, all doors are roll in with no steps and that window is right up near the joists. It will get a cover.

 

[iRONic]

A wheelchair bound person's dream house!

Seriously, aging in place is a very smart philosophy for home building.

 

[skyking]

after witnessing all the struggles my brother in law had ( and my sister), I would not create a space that did not accomodate everyone possible.
Ideally it would be a single level slab on grade rambler, but the site did not speak to that.

 

[skyking]

So here is what it looks like when you go find the sanitary pipes below the finish.
Tap tap tap where you know they are, the sound is different. Break the thin concrete and vaccuum it up as you go, and pry up the cookie.
There is the coupler ready to continue piping. I will stuff a rag in it and the framer can hole saw for the pipe, and put the wall up. I'll glue a short piece in there after the wall is up so he does not have to frame over it.



I leave the ones I am not concerned with below grade and out of the way of the rolling scaffolding. These ones are in a bearing wall we need to frame to get the first floor subfloor in.
I'll locate and bring up the conduit and pipe as we build out those partition walls later.