Column formwork going up. The long drop should help to compact the concrete
Column formwork going up. The long drop should help to compact the concrete
Pouring the concrete for the columns
Scaffolding for the 1st floor beams. The columns in the foreground are for the external stairs (Variation 1)
Roof truss steel preparation
Steel member sizes
First king-post
Apparently the welders were on leave from a job in PNG, and had time to work on the roof
The stairway roof. Pouring the concrete for the last columns
The house is taking shape
The Carpenter. He is the Contractor's father
The Contractor and the Manager discussing roofing details.
Your cracking on at a pace now PIA ,, looking good mate
Fixings for the floor beams
Thanks for the message pominasia. I will respond when I can (when I make the 20 post limit)
The rooms are taking shape
The worst of the honeycombing of the beams. That's why I had a good FOS in the beam design !
Having gone through the building process and showing it on a thread on here I appreciate the effort needed so thanks for making the effort to create this thread and to post the pictures.
I have one question. In post #60 the concrete in the right hand column does not go all the way up to meet the sttel of the roof. In the next post it appears that it is not only the front corner column that suffered this fate. Is it by design that the concrete was left short? If not what is the reasoning behind doing like that?
Having build a shed that involved 3 additions there were some occassions where they got the levels a little screwed up and come up short. In my case they welded the steel reinforcing in the column to the roof steel and then boxed it up and added more conrete. If the roof is going to be heavy tiles I would be a bit concerned and make sure that the conrete is added prior to the tiles being put on the roof.
Good luck and keep posting.
well, the old style Thai was essentially a wooden structure with posts placed at the maximum interval for the wood usedOriginally Posted by WhiteLotusLane
this is a new house made with lots of concrete so leaving out a post or two would hardly compromise the building
the trouble with having posts in the middle of the building is they limit what you can do with the interior space
not necessarily a problem unless you want something a little different
I have reported your post
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There were several columns that were cast short on that side of the building (west). The roof truss steel was welded to the column reinforcement and then the columns extended. See picture below. I am not sure whether this was just casual construction which could be corrected later, or intentional to allow for accurate levelling. The columns to the external stairs were mostly cast short.
The start of fixing the roof sheets. I wanted to have a reflective foil under the sheets and duly bought a few rolls. Apparently I got the wrong stuff and they had problems with it. Not being on site I am not sure what the difficulties were, or what I should have bought. Anyway, in the end we got a foil under the sheets. See below
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