The last row in the masonry of the second floor this season. Why am I stopping the construction?

Weather in October 2020 in Krasnoyarsk it is changeable: it is snow, then it is warm up to +15 gr. But it's good that there are no strong night frosts (the glue will set better). On 10/18/2020, the construction site looked like this:

I knew long before that that I would not have time to build the second floor. I thought that I would raise a maximum of 4-6 rows until the cold weather. And the attic floor and roof are definitely the next season. It's not even about finances. There are many reasons: weather, free time, quality of work (which you can only entrust yourself). In general, the speed of my work. In the comments, they gave advice to hire workers and to mount the roof in the cold weather.

Because the attic floor will be according to the MARKO-economy technology (why exactly this will be in a separate article), and there is no desire to fill it in the cold, then I was in no hurry and did not hire anyone. I will preserve the construction site, cover the masonry - and until next season. In the meantime, let's see what we did in the last days of October.

The tenth row began (only 11 on the second floor, ceilings 2.7 m), the blocks ended. When ordering the next batch, it turned out that the truck with a large manipulator, which delivers aerated concrete to the facilities, was under repair. The second machine with the manipulator boom will not place the pallets on the floors, because the walls are too high for her.

I found MAZ ads with a manipulator boom length of 20 m and a carrying capacity of several tons. Because Sibit steel pallets with a volume of 1.5 m3, and the mass with a density of D500 is almost 1 ton, then a manipulator is needed with a good lifting capacity. Manually lifting the blocks from the first floor alone is not an option. Health is more expensive.

The crane that installed floor slabs for moving out and lifting pallets requested 6 thousand. rub. MAZ - 8 thousand / trip. Savings on blocks for self-pickup - 2 thous. rub. There was no sense in hiring different equipment to deliver and deliver pallets - there was no point. The costs are the same. Therefore, he delivered and lifted the blocks with one machine.

Before ordering, I thoroughly calculated which blocks and how many are needed. But since pallets in the last batches from the factory are 1.5 m3, then, for example, 300 mm blocks were not ordered. I will cut them from 400 mm, and 100 mm will go to the outer formwork of the floor. Separately 100 mm - also 1.5 m3. And I needed a small pallet of 0.75 m3. Therefore, I ordered 200 mm blocks. They will also have to be cut in half. The machine is still working, I think that the resource of the electric saw will be enough in it next year.

It snowed immediately after the blocks were unloaded. But the next day it had already melted and I continued laying in the evenings:

I covered the vertical seams with glue-foam, cut off the excess, sanded the surface with a float, dust-free - everything is as usual. You do it almost automatically.

Finished the 10th row. I thought to stop, but the weather is still positive and I decided to continue. According to the project, there will be factory lintels over the windows. I thought that the dimensions I needed (the right length) were in stock, but it turned out not all. The production order will be in the winter (delivery by road). And I will be able to get them only next year. This stopped my construction. The most I did was lay out the 11th row on both sides:

From the side of the windows, I will continue the laying after installing the jumpers. It is no longer easy to masonry at such a height. I did not put the scaffolding, moved the table, assembled from pallets and the stand to it. It looks like this:

11th row masonry. You put the block on a stand, climb onto it and move it higher. This puts the block on the wall. You feel at such a height as a circus artist. The table does not shake much, but you need to keep balance.

Ahead of the construction site conservation (to cover the window openings with foil and cover the masonry). You also need to make a temporary staircase to the second floor. And since remained fittings, then I decided to use it on the lintels of the internal load-bearing wall. There will be little savings. We need to make U-blocks for this, and I will concrete in the spring.

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Self-builder blog (c). Photos by the author

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