Well - the foundation for the house and garage are now completed. The steel reinforcing took a couple of days to put together by hand . The reinforments go under each wall and the chimney. The concrete arrived last Thursday - it took about 60 cubic metres to do the house and garage. The garage is about 3m by 10m and the house is about 16m by 9.5m . The wooden shuttering to support the concrete was removed on Friday - now we have to wait for the concrete to cure - officially that is 28 days - before block laying can begin. We might start a bit sooner than that.
The concrete used was 30N (Newtons) strength. Physics was never my strong point - but basically the strength of concrete is measured in Newtons.
Pictures of progress to follow soon.
1 comment:
The foundations are the most important part of any build in my opinion, well that and getting the thing water tight! It seems to me like you have taken great care to get them just right, but many people don't. I mainly work with concrete and about 40% of the work we do is mending poorly built concrete foundations. People think cutting corners and buying cheap building materials is a good idea, but it really is not!
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