Addtion To My House

rbsremodeling

See the temp Blocks





You pull out the blocks and slide in two 4" pieces of rebar tie them to the rebar coming out the ground. Box it in with plywood and pour the concrete into a small hole in the top of the plywood forms

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neolitic

Aaaah,I wondered why they could
handle the leads and then get
so sloppy on the openings.

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rbsremodeling

Actually it was also the first time 2 of them laid blocks. We normally sub out block work unless its small I have one mason. He was teaching the younger guys to do the block work. The building is off by a 1/2" They did good for their first time

We taught them how to do bond beams, pour corners, and tie steel. It was winter time and they learned how work on a house from ground up.

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rbsremodeling

Chris can you teach me how to do ICF walls?

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bwalley

I don't see the rebar coming out of the stemwall for the door opening.

We are required to overlap our steel 40 bar diameters and tie or weld them together.

rbsremodeling

DC is a 12" splice and tie wire and keep moving.

I don't see it either. hmm might need to jack hammer that corner. The steel nor the poured corners are not required, I use to live in hurricane areas so it is a habit.

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Chris Johnson

Sure, start out as a 3 year old building with Duplo's as you get a little older switch to Lego's...visit LegoLand California and play there. That gives you the basics.

Anyone can do it, doing it with finesse takes time.

But once you get it down to a science and are understand the whole system you will discover that it is by far the best way to build...and profitable.

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tgeb

We don't usually do the foundation and slab that way.

At first I thought you were doing a monolithic slab/footing,
then it looks like you did a footing and stem wall, formed and poured the slab, then continued with the block walls.

Why did you do it that way? We would have placed a footing, run the walls on up with a ledge inside, then poured the slab inside of the walls.

Oh, nice looking job BTW.

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rbsremodeling

The footing and slab were one pour

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WarnerConstInc.

I always thought that was harder to do.

For basements we poured the spread footers, set wall forms, poured, stripped forms, poured floor.

Crawls the same except hardly ever concrete rat slab.

Slabs we trenched footers and poured, set forms and poured slab.

nEighter

awesome! Rory did you double your living space? Nice finishes and colors

rbsremodeling

Yep double he sf footage. Funny thing I did this exact renovation to a house identical to mine about 6 blocks away

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nEighter

Same layout and all? I remember in another thread you posting a couple of these picts and I was like.. Hmmm.. That is really cool man. So did you renovate the other side while/after this side was done?

rbsremodeling

Exact same layout. Same architect did both drawings, Cut and paste. We did both at the same time.

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nEighter

okay, but did you say that you did renovate the older living space?.. not sure if you answered that or not

rbsremodeling

Yes sorry I did renovate the old space as well.

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Gus Dering

Nice place Rory

Did you live there during construction?

If so, go kiss her right now and thank her again.

tgeb

Are you kidding?? She Should be thanking Him for fixing the place up so nice! What are you thinking Gus?

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