Refinement forms for pouring decorative fence blocks
Came the construction season 2019. I will begin to describe the works virtually in real time. Well, as real - with a delay of several days. details of the process will be more. Photos - too. Sometimes there are short videos. I do not possess the skills of video editing, but there are thought to some degree and master it. This adds informative material articles.
The season started with ground works. After the winter, frost heave loosen tight black earth and remove a layer of soil has been much easier than in the autumn:
Further brought out all the concrete products from the greenhouse, workshop and made it clean, put things in order.
In the evenings I have not worked. In the second half of April, the weather turned bad, snowing. In general, to come and something could continue only on the May Day holidays.
In 2018. I had defined a strategy: If I gain the necessary amount for the construction of the first floor of the house - do masonry walls. If not - do the fence and doing well. maximum program did not work. I decided to complete the construction of the front of the fence.
Take the credit - so it is all still have to pay and the delay in the construction is transferred to the next. Decided not in a hurry, to build as like, rather than what would be faster - so do not lose your motivation. About the financial strategy will be a separate article.
Prepared angle in his workshop for mounting casting molds decorative fence blocks. According to all the same "Washed concrete" technology (for those who have not read the previous articles in this channel).
In previous articles I wrote that for the plastic mold frames needed - that they were not bursting with concrete. Decided not to buy the metal, welded solid frames, and to make available the wooden bars 50h50mm:
The design is simple, but its function is performed. Fastened on the screws. Further metal legs are fixed area. Feet keep only the skeleton. Plastic molds are based on the base.
I made five frames for all 15 forms.
I put frames with forms on the level.
The blocks have slots - to hide the horizontal masonry joint. With these grooves laying such blocks looks better. To this end, the bottom of the forms are stacked bars 1h1sm:
Included with the forms were plywood boards - removable bottom for better stripping products. I wrapped them with stretch film and they put bars:
Of the two forms, which is filled with permanent formwork for slab foundation, molds made decorative plates on fence posts. As previously wrote - repaint the poles do not want to, it is possible that the paint exfoliates again.
Blockouts left to do. Their size: 60h60mm - Pole with a grid (the south side), 60x30 mm, and - to the east of the fence posts. From the western - 80x60 mm (columns of circular pipe). More information about the technology of their manufacturing and installation will be separate.
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