Got it. Just inside the northern ring road. Reason I asked, I would be happy to pop by and have a look during construction if you want me to.
^ Sure
I taking the piss out of Norton ... I know him a little from other places.
Rain for the next couple days so I doubt we'll see any work being done, will update once the rain stops.
While waiting for the rain to stop, between showers they are getting stakes ready to set up forms for beams, builder went to get wood for forms but on his way his pickup almost died several times driving through water and when he arrived at shop they were closed due to flooding, so another delay.
In the meantime it looks like they are raising rebar for outside kitchen.
I'm curious how they are going to backfill and support under beam, all the loose dirt is mud, be interesting to see Thai solution to that.
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect,"
Dennis you said,
"I'm curious how they are going to backfill and support under beam, all the loose dirt is mud, be interesting to see Thai solution to that."
As it is a "beam" it does not require any support underneath once the concrete has dried. The concrete will reach roughly 70% of its final strentgh after 7 days and 90+% after 28 days.
So providing the rebar is strong enough to support any vertical load the beam will be self supporting.
If you are worried about the fill between the beams supporting the floor then I believe they will most likely use precast concrete slabs laid across the beams and then put rebar above them and then pour the concrete floor.
So in the end you could theoratically leave the area under the beams and floor empty as in have a house raised above the natural ground level.
Hope all that makes sense.
Hi Ootai, I understand that, what I was talking about was because they had to raise the rebar for beams 30 cm in the outdoor kitchen, I was wondering how they were going to backfill area below on distance that was raised, here we would use sand and compact, but there I'm sure they didn't do that and the only thing I see that was available was wet dirt or mud which wouldn't be much to hold the bottom of the concrete, the rest of the forms have a couple inches of concrete for base.
Water went down and forms were delivered to site, and I mean regular concrete forms ( I'm impressed), couple days and they were done ready for concrete.
Looking in from the street
Living room, bathroom on the right, not able to see entry and front bedroom. I'm still trying to explain how to take pictures but I must remain calm if I get too excited I may not get any.
Second bedroom/utility room on left, kitchen on right, beyond that is outdoor kitchen, it looks big but daughter said it was 2.5 meter like it's supposed to be.
And a nice picture of small building rebar behind house. The pour is scheduled for this weekend, I asked for some action photos of that, not sure if it will happen.
A little more news, additional crew member this past week, foreman's DIL had a baby, week later mother back on the job working, tough woman.
Dennis sorry about that I misunderstood what you were saying/asking.
I reckon they will just shutter down to the current level and then infill with some material and then concrete on top of that.
My question is why are you raising the floor of the outside kitchen 30cm. I would have expected it to be lowered like they lower the bathroom floors.
I was jumping the gun a little, shoring up the forms to be completed this weekend, and cement truck comes monday, A (builder) said all beams should be poured by friday. Wants check on monday for next phase.
Front of house forms braced.
Still working on forms at rear of house.
I finally figured out how to get picture of floor plan, I had it in pdf but that didn't work, I used clip art to get photo image.
First floor.
Second floor.
Small bldg. Urinal, stool/shower, utility room (water tank, water pump, power panel to external lights, and gate, etc., tool shop
They had the outside kitchen 30 cm lower than inside kitchen, I didn't want steps, if it would have been like bathrooms which would have been about 5 cm I would have been OK with that. Our bathrooms will be at same level, only shower area will be lowered. Dry bathroom wet shower
Dennis
Thanks for the explanation. I looked at the pictures and it appeared to me that the floor of the outside kitchen was level with the rest of the house and you were going to raise it up 30cm.
I understand you not wanting a step between the outside kitchen and the inside but if it was me I would still have some difference in floor levels.
We have an outside kitchen and to me it seems like the missus likes it because she doesn't have to be so careful about making a bit of a mess.
If the floor gets messy just get the hose and wash it out.
cheers
[QUOTE=ootai;3998996]If the floor gets messy just get the hose and wash it out.
Then I'd have to put a floor drain in.
Here's a couple photos the builder posted on Line, closeups of form work
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