The two above and below pictures were taken Friday morning (Sep 12th) before work. The forms for the footings are mostly in place. Rocksolid Concrete had to have a city inspector come out and inspect before they could do the pour.
When I stopped back after work on Friday, the footings had been poured and the first two courses of block had started.
They put as many pallets of blocks in the hole as would fit, so as few blocks as possible had to be carried from pallets outside the hole. The walls looked plumb. You can see the wool inserts (for insulation) in the block holes and also rebar sticking up out of the holes. The blocks are stacked offset on each course. The first course of blocks (the bottom layer) was set directly onto the still-wet cement footings. The second course was stacked on top of the first, offset by half. It's hard to see from the pictures, because the blocks have a vertical "dent" in the middle of each side, but when the second course is stacked on the first, the blocks are shifted over so the middle of the block in the second course is centered over
seam betweens the blocks in the first course. It's no different than the setting of bricks or regular cement blocks; you always offset each course.
The two above and below pictures were taken Friday morning (Sep 12th) before work. The forms for the footings are mostly in place. Rocksolid Concrete had to have a city inspector come out and inspect before they could do the pour.
When I stopped back after work on Friday, the footings had been poured and the first two courses of block had started.
They put as many pallets of blocks in the hole as would fit, so as few blocks as possible had to be carried from pallets outside the hole. The walls looked plumb. You can see the wool inserts (for insulation) in the block holes and also rebar sticking up out of the holes. The blocks are stacked offset on each course. The first course of blocks (the bottom layer) was set directly onto the still-wet cement footings. The second course was stacked on top of the first, offset by half. It's hard to see from the pictures, because the blocks have a vertical "dent" in the middle of each side, but when the second course is stacked on the first, the blocks are shifted over so the middle of the block in the second course is centered over
seam betweens the blocks in the first course. It's no different than the setting of bricks or regular cement blocks; you always offset each course.
2 comments:
You must have learned so much before you did this. You've got a whole new vocabulary! I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to "toast" the ground-breaking.
Hi Barb, This is VERY cool! This wonderful!
Kim & Kim
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