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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Jan 16, 2012 13:22:17 GMT -8
Finished footer on east side of the beam... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Jan 29, 2012 18:50:30 GMT -8
Cut the hole today, pouring more concrete tomorrow... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 2, 2012 4:52:04 GMT -8
Basement mostly done, still need to pull off the forms a week from now... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 2, 2012 4:58:08 GMT -8
Ready for the pouring of more concrete, vermicrete and then refractory vermicrete... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 3, 2012 5:29:50 GMT -8
Got the vermicrete poured last night... Attachments:
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Post by pasto76 on Feb 3, 2012 6:56:42 GMT -8
very awesome. I love the scale of this project.
anyone considering something like this in the future: add some shear connectors to any beam you pour over. The absence of them here does not detract from his quality one bit. Just like adding a bit of polish.
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 4, 2012 6:33:51 GMT -8
Thanks for looking, I didn't even know what a shear connector was (until I looked it up) , but I did tie rebar into the joists I cut out above the I beams and had rebar tie arounds below.
If I had to do it again I probably would put some large bolts into the I beams and tied some rebar right to it.
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Post by pasto76 on Feb 4, 2012 6:46:28 GMT -8
if you looked them up, then you are a master of the application. Nothing in my trade is rocket science. But you're not dealing with commercial sized loading and stuff. It's more like a landing in a stairwell on one of my jobs. We dont put shear connectors in those. From your pics it looks proper bombproof. I showed them to my wife. She just said NO and walked away.
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 4, 2012 9:40:51 GMT -8
Yeah I just figured all three pours, 5" rebar concrete, 6" rebar concrete, and 8" of wired vermicrete totaled 19" all together. 500 years from now some skunks will be living in that manmade cave. I am going to finish the burntunnel and heater riser in brick and the bench in 3/4" cobalt pennyround floor tile. Maybe the good photos of it finished that way with the family sitting on it will soften your wife's heart a bit
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 10, 2012 16:45:57 GMT -8
So far... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 10, 2012 18:36:09 GMT -8
Time to goto bed... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 11, 2012 2:36:19 GMT -8
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 11, 2012 12:28:56 GMT -8
Didn't know cutting firebrick was so easy, so I include more complex filler brick pieces on the fly... Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 12, 2012 1:32:38 GMT -8
Won't be able to work on it again until the 16th Attachments:
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Post by Dan (Upstate NY, USA) on Feb 17, 2012 4:27:39 GMT -8
Some rockwool and some ginger slave labor... Attachments:
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