The basis for our future home (continued basement unit)

The days followed one another, we gradually obihazhivat our site. I wanted to ensure that our young garden grew along with our home. That's just very difficult to combine the construction site and land plants. All the time it is necessary to protect the landing from the encroachments on their lives. But we, though with difficulty, everything worked. Our house is now completely surrounded by trees. We were able to do so, that our construction has not suffered any one plant.

I would advise those who want to engage in gardening and building a house at the same time, the construction site near the plant annuals. If they suffer, it is possible to land on the other next year. A ll perennial planting should be placed at least two meters away from the construction project. Will need a great platform on which you will unload and store building materials. Also, you need a free passage, which can not be before the end of construction to hold the trees. They can at this time to leave the pot, which in the winter will have to prikopat into the ground to the root system of your seedlings are not damaged by frost. Our little pears grow together, and together with our house.

And our building meanwhile continued slowly. We have changed the design of the house at the stage of laying the foundation of the tape. Now, instead of cold tambour, we had the warm hall. Only the vestibule, after all, need necessarily to the cold air in the winter did not arrive immediately at home. It was necessary to again engage in foundation work.

Her husband did not want to build a square platform. He decided to make it into a trapezoid shape that was a combination of a boiler. So the outlines become softer home. No sooner said than done. After a lot of calculations, he dug a trench and set the formwork of the fiftieth board.

These boards we got from the old masters - they simply lay behind the barn. That's handy, after all. A good host sooner or later in the case goes. The bottom of the trench backfilled with sand, and then the trench and formwork prostelil polyethylene. Reinforcement done in two rows. The foundation is "tied" to the basic structure of the valve.

Concrete is poured by hand with the help of our mixers. Kneading solution was 1: 3 (one part cement to three parts of the filler). The filler used screened, mixed with sand.

Nature rain we did not indulge. So we had to take care of the concrete. The point is not difficult, but responsible. Three or four times a day we watered our tape with water from a hose. In addition, several times spilled concrete from a watering can. Thanks to our efforts, we have not a single cracks.

After the formwork has been removed, the husband made a reverse dumping sand. He rammed his hand. Rammer made from a log, which nailed the board. Sprinkled sand layers and each layer is compacted. Oh, and it's hard work, I tell you! With her husband ten pots went off.

It's time to pour the floor slab, which will serve as the sub-floor in the house. There was a question for the slab formwork. My husband and I initially wanted to make it out of wood. Then he thought that the plate will then need to be sure to insulate, to avoid contact with the concrete street in the winter. Otherwise, the concrete will serve as a bridge in the cold house. At this point, the idea to put the formwork brick. Under this option, we cut off the concrete slab from the street, the formwork is not necessary for a long time tinkering, and then suffer with its dismantling. Question insulation boards are also removed. That's what has turned out as a result of formwork.

Brick husband lecturing layer on the roll of waterproofing. This material he taped the entire surface of the foundation tape. As the adhesive used bitumen mastic. It was too thick, so I had a little dilute it with white spirit.

To contact the plate with strip foundations we laid in advance in the reinforcement tape. Then began the time-consuming work on the reinforcement of the concrete slab of the future.

His story to share with us our reader Svetlana Putintseva.