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Cole82

Well we are set to pour tomarrow at 11:00am. We had a few engineer hickups with how the steel was placed.

dakzaag

How many yards?

Thats a big hole for one house!

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Cole82

50 Yards in 3 hours with 5 guys.
I was finishing the rest pouring, screeding and hose wrangling.

tgeb

Looks good.

Again, nice clean work.

What's it like working under that giant house? It would drive me nuts having that thing over my head all day.

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dakzaag

Here come the ICF's. Nice work on some big footers.

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Cole82

The house provides nice shade and anything you put in the cribbing is gone. Lots of tape measures and pencils.

Thanks biggest footer I have dug and poured.



They also asked me about doing 2 more basements for them at this location. One will be attached to the house a 40'x60' underground room for storage of wine. With icf wall and ceiling I guesse they have some for doing roofs/ceilings. The other one for a tasting building with a full commercial kitchen in the basement. They want this [lace to have a event draw for weddings etc with catering on site. Don't think I will be doing it this year but spring work booked in sep is nice.

Cole82

A mile of drain tile is all dug and placed at a 3% grade.

Also started the icf today.

OGStilts

Man Cole, it's looking great. I hope you got this one on cost plus...or really CYA...this one looks like a lot of unexpecteds.

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lukachuki

That actually looks fun. The ICF part at least.

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dakzaag

Never done an ICF project. Do you cut the block for all those corners or do they come with predetermined angles.

Seems like a ton of special pieces would be needed in this application. I am guessing that you are cutting them to fit.

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The maintenance schedule for brick
1. Stand back and say "man that looks nice!"
2. Repeat as often as needed.

Cole82

Thanks guys. It has been a blessing and a very big learning experince.


The blocks are premade for 90deg corners. That is it for 12" walls. So everything else is cut as you go. It is way more involved than the other basement I helped on. Following the house is proveing to be very difficult. It isn't scuare or straight. The blocks don't go together unles it is square and straight. Basically it is taking for ever glueing the all these corners together. A lot longer than a normal house.


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If any one wants to stop out and take a look they are more than welcome too. Google Tipton, IA to check how far away, it's only a few miles outside of there.

Cole82

More pics.

I was sick for a few days and the guys didn't get much done and didn't put bar on all of the 3rd coarse. So yesterday was spent re doing what they did.

Now it's raining today and tomarrow. Next week is my anniversary and will be on vacation. We aren't behind on the schedualling, but the set backs piss me off. Told the owners Nov 4 I would be done with pouring the walls.

Also decided to pour in two stages. Will have a cold joint half way up the wall. Otherwise it will be a 15-20 hour day to pour all at once. There is just too much stuff in the way to make the pour go smooth.

IHI

Looking great thus far Cole I never paid attention to location until you mentioned it and i peeped at your location too LOL!! We're up here in Elk Run, (waterloo area) and are over run by ICF guys, but looks like you got it handled

I used to make 1-2 trips a year to Tipton buying trailers then brining them back up here and selling for profits, bout 1.5 hrs from me, and yeah, you weather schedule is looking like chit for awhile It's been a terrible year for out door work, save for that 3 week stint of nice weather..wish the whole summer woulda been like that.

Looking forward to seeing more progress pictures as you get them

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lukachuki

Thanks Cole for keeping us updated! This is one of my all time favorite threads on CT.

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tgeb

What does the rain have to do with it?

You have a giant ass house to keep the rain off of you, and all the drain stuff is in. Looks like the "go to" job when the weather is bad.

Thanks for the update w/pics. Looks good from here.

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joasis

I had to research Liteform ICF's after seeing them....great prices...I will be curious to see how they perform for you.

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IHI

that area got pizz pounded today, 3.xx" of rain.

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tgeb

Oh, that could slow progress a bit....

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Steve G.

Nice thread... simply amazing how they move these houses! Looks like you're doing a great job
More pics

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Cole82

Thanks for all the kind words guys. This has been a decently good job in reality. No huge set backs but a few little ones here and there.