Masonry of internal load-bearing walls in aerated concrete house

After the erection of the outer walls of the first floor, I started laying the inner ones. The beginning of the process and the pouring of the columns in the opening was shown in this article: Why did I fill in reinforced concrete columns in the aerated concrete house under construction?

As I showed in that article, one slab (central) is located across the main ones and rests on the partition walls. They need to be made carriers. For this, their thickness was chosen 20 cm (with the support of the slab 15 cm on each side). In the openings there are monolithic columns, and above them there is an armo-belt, which is connected into a single one with the main armo-belt.

The armopoyas beam, which separates the living room and the kitchen, I excluded from the project. There will be a monolithic section between the slabs. The load-bearing wall, which divides the house into two halves, was laid out simultaneously with the outer ones.

So, the masonry process:

During the evening I laid out two rows of walls separating the furnace and the walls of the guest room. Horizontal seams with mineral glue. The vertical seams were still foamed, although this could not have been done. I thought it wouldn't hurt for better sound insulation.

A separate moment is the dressing, anchoring of the walls with the outer walls. Saw some do it with a perforated strip. But I did not find much sense in this and decided to make the connection into pieces of fiberglass reinforcement with a diameter of 10 mm, fixed with mineral glue. To do this, I drilled a hole in the outer wall (and hammered the reinforcement with glue), and drilled a groove in the block of the adjoining wall. The reinforcement was located on the edge of the lower masonry and pressed down by the upper block (with a groove). I did this in each block of each row, adjacent to the outer walls. To reduce horizontal displacement deformations.

The columns were poured as the walls grew. He reinforced the masonry - the same way every fourth row, as in the outer walls:

To obtain the groove, I used the same router.

It was already early to get dark in early August. First I used an old lamp with a crocodile clip for lighting. But then I bought a 50 W LED floodlight and made a stand for it from scraps of a board and a bar:

Equivalent in lighting to a 500 W incandescent lamp. The price of these lighting fixtures has come down. I bought it for only 500 rubles.

An example of how it illuminates:

There is enough light inside.

For a week of work, I reached the filling of the jumpers:

There is only one wall without an armored belt (not bearing) on ​​the first floor - this is the wall separating the bathroom and the furnace. But it is also made of 200 mm aerated concrete blocks. The furnace will have a lower temperature: 15-18 gr. And a thin wall is heat loss.

Filling the lintels, installing the formwork for the armored belt and the result after pouring it - in the next article.

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