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Week 6 The Concrete Pour

Susie

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On Monday the internal structural walls are up to the top of the ICF walls and are tied in to the ICF walls.  The windows and doorways have extra bracing ready for the pour.

Nobody on site on Tuesday it rains all day and no more prep is needed before the pour.

 

Wednesday starts with the last minute checks ready for the pour.  The concrete pump arrives on site at 12pm it takes 30 minutes  to set up before the first concrete pours out.  We have 4 builders onsite plus the concrete pump operator.  The concrete is poured into the ICF on all four walls in stages twice round and its up-to window cill height, the ICF cills are pushed into the wet concrete and the wood boards replaced so that the pour can continue higher.  A poker is used to vibrate the concrete to ensure the concrete fills the ICF without any voids. At 4pm the pour is finished and the cleanup can start.  The pump driver tests out our hammer head turn which was required by BC as we are so far from the road and Fire Engines are not allowed to reverse more than 20m.  I think this proves our access works and it’s all down to the driver of the vehicles, the pump driver is great if only all delivery drivers are like this. The gables will be completed later so the concrete has rebar inserted, the other two walls are trowelled level.

By the end of the week one gable is braced and poured.

 

Total man days of labour week 6 is 17 days.

 

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Redoctober

Looks great - must be such a relief knowing that the "pour" went without any of the dramas, usually associated with such an option. What do you put that down to - good prep work?

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6 hours ago, Redoctober said:

Looks great - must be such a relief knowing that the "pour" went without any of the dramas, usually associated with such an option. What do you put that down to - good prep work?

The builders on site have done a few ICF builds previously. I think because the ICF supplier is local it gets chosen as a build method  locally.  There was a lot of prep work and the pump operator knew his stuff too having no doubt done a few ICF pours. 

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