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As I built the house. Foundation.

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I continue the story of the building.

After all the calculations it was clear how much and what material is required and what stages in the work ahead.

Basic materials were purchased in the winter. And in early May he began to prepare the formwork for the foundation. Since the frame is not particularly heavy, the foundation also made lightweight. Formwork for the foundation was set around the existing extensions. Do very foundation calculated width of 35 cm and a height (depth) of 50 cm. Length he turned 27 meters. The plot is not very smooth and on the street side of the foundation tape turned out almost level with the ground, and from the garden one of the corners of the foundation is almost completely dominated the land.

Formwork made of an old lining from which were made canopy. Here was my first miscalculation (school), he really showed up only when pouring the foundation. Previously, I had experience of manufacturing a continuous footing with a hand mixers in the form of a barrel. There poured the foundation for parts and for a long time. Here I decided to fill in at a time and ordered ready-mixed concrete in the mixer 5 m * 3. But let's order.

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By mid-May, I graduated from the formwork. I thought that two weeks would be enough to start the frame assembly. He gathered his friends and relatives to help fill and ordered a mixer.

Since the mixer could be fit only one corner, it had to quickly get rid of liquid concrete shuttering across the tape, which is 4 meters in one direction and 23 meters in another.

Five assistants coped fairly quickly, pushing shovels concrete. In the farthest corner only had to run with buckets.

All went well at first, but... when he had to fill 1/4 of the height of the tape could not stand formwork, part of which - approximately 4 meters in length - was almost entirely above ground. At this point, a large mass of highly liquid concrete bursting wall formwork and she became like a barrel.

I had to quickly shovel the concrete with this site and on where crowbars, where strong language and other props, managed to retain the shape of the formwork and pour the entire foundation.

In general, two hours, a little experience and the foundation poured.

And then, as it should be with all the assistants we had a traditional ritual to the foundation was strong and stood for a long time. :-)

In fact, do an extension is not so beautiful as to build something in the new location. Next, a few photos of the beginning of construction.

In this photo, part of the foundation, which is located closer to the street.

This is the part of the garden. A barn where it goes to tape naturally demolished, the right part of the clay visible extension with the removed skin. And I forgot to say that the foundation laid once the scoop under the vent. I made them from the board. Visible in the photo below is one of these vents. It is also seen as a rasperlo shuttering boards. At this point, the foundation has turned slightly domed and privalennye pieces of concrete are used as a backup.

This board harvested on the frame. In the foreground of scrap, which also backs the formwork.

As of press time had passed six years as a house is built, I can talk about what worked well and what did not. But it will be in future releases.

Alexander.

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