The basis for our future home (tape base unit)

The trench under the strip foundation was ready. Depth - 1 m, width - 40 cm. The boys dug all neatly aligned diagonally to the millimeter. The size of the house we made a small - 8.20 * 10.60 m We do not want to use the house for a lot of useful area of ​​the site.. Come formwork installation time.

At the bottom of the trench husband put sand bed height of about 10 cm. He rammed her vibratory plates taken at the time of his companion. In "Baucenter" we bought a black polyethylene. Prostelili their bottom and sides of the trench in two layers in order to subsequently eliminate water leakage from the concrete.

Reinforcement tape made valves 12 mm in diameter in two rows. Clamps - of a smooth rod with a diameter of 8 mm. Welding is not used for fixing - knitted structure thin wire. I used for breeding husband bought in the hardware store hook, which is used to this day. He bent the rebar using the tool, made with his own hands. I have always admired his ability to make any mechanism. The photo - hook and armaturogib (welding wire inserted for clarity).

Two small council novice builders. First - do not use welding for attaching fittings in the foundation. When welding metal is heated, thereby the abutment attenuated. If any fluctuations in this place can occur armature gap. Second - do not lay in the foundation reinforcement of fiberglass. It has no pretensioning, so in cold weather when the ground shifting of fittings is stretched, and you have a crack may appear as well. Something similar happened to our neighbor who is now conceals manufacturers fiberglass reinforcement worst words.

In the sites of the corners where the fittings are joined ranks, mandatory joint fastened seat fittings, bent at an angle of 45 degrees. It is also fastened with wire. This is done in order to prevent rupture of the junction with the shifting of the ground, swelling, or cleaning the soil groundwater.

Formwork husband pounded out of the board 25 * 150 mm. How many cubes we bought - I do not remember. But we have gone the whole timber. There were small crop, which we then grilled kebab. Before installing formwork husband drove a few pegs from the fittings. Four were hammered at the corners of the house and one at a time - in the middle of each wall. Corner pegs were placed after we are "recaptured" diagonal long tape measure. Laser level's husband identified the top level of the foundation. Tags were placed with white paint on pegs. Then on these labels husband handed lacing construction. It has become a marker of which make shuttering. As a tool for cutting boards he used a conventional hand hacksaw, circular saw "Interskol", and the electric chain saw BOSCH.

Pipes for sewerage husband laid in advance, so you do not have to hammer away at the foundation. Drawing house project, we have identified the point where will have to be sanitary.

Boards guys fastened with screws on wood, using an electric screwdriver "Interskol". Until that time, we have always been screwing with batteries. But then tired of their recharging, and the battery, we often come across poor quality. As a result, my husband finally went to work with a screwdriver. Formwork husband and friends did for about a week. They tried to make it as much as possible quality, and they had nowhere to hurry.

On the external wall boards husband stapler secured polyethylene, and covered with soil extracted from the trenches. This was done, as they say, "for a complete peace of mind." Our formwork was ready to take concrete.

Concrete workers do not have to wait long. The following morning, after the formwork has been made, we were visited by concrete, and after him - with concrete mixers. The concrete we used the brand M-250. Pouring process took place as follows: each husband regulate feeding concrete mass into the mold, and the male behind him vibrator concrete expelled from air bubbles. Work is not fast, they poured concrete into the evening. We took to the foundation 26 m3 of concrete.

Qualities of the formwork did not disappoint. It is not inflated in one place. After the departure of mixers and concrete pumps, we could safely admire his handiwork.

The foundation was ready for our future home. Rainy autumn weather eased us to care for the concrete, rather, a rain themselves to look after him. We only had to wait for sunny days, to do analysis of the formwork. Retreat was now nowhere - you need to build a house.

His story to share with us our reader Svetlana Putintseva.