Today the rebar people came in to start the installation of the rebar in the bottom floor retaining wall and footings forms. The rebar people should finish this part of their work tomorrow. Then the lake side of the retaining wall form needs to be completed and the forms inspected. The current plan is to pour the bottom floor retain wall and footings next Monday.
Today the crew had a nice sunny day to place the forms for the exterior and interior concrete walls. Hopefully the weather will stay warm for the next concrete pour.
The door on the road side of the building will be a bit higher than we had originally planned because the whole foundation had to be raised for geo-technical reasons. However, our builder doesn’t see that it will be a problem once we get the final grading in place.
The builder’s crew continues to work on the retaining wall form. The plan is get it ready for the rebar people to come in on Monday and install the wall’s rebar.
The builder’s crew continued to sling rocks for the morning and then started building the form for the large retaining wall.
The crew was in early this morning removing the forms. Once they were removed, the rock slinger returned to start filling up the hole. Our builder expects a couple of days of rock slinging to get up to the needed height.
We had a bit of a surprise when we checked the amount of concrete that went into the footing. The calculated amount was 63 cubic meters but the actual was 85 cubic meters at almost $200 per cubic meter. Our builder says that the concrete could have seeped into the gravel underneath and the centre of the footing may not have been built up enough.
Our geo-tech is looking into why an excessive amount of geo-tech fabric was ordered by one of his guys. Hopefully we will get a solution to this soon.
We met with our builder just after the last load of concrete was placed. Apparently it was quite an adventure getting the rebar in place and the inspections done before the concrete could be poured. Yesterday, the rebar people didn’t show up until later in the morning even though the structural engineering inspection was scheduled for 1:00. The rebar people did not finish until late Wednesday which required that the engineer return this morning to complete the inspection.
The crew spent most of the day pumping about 8 truck loads of concrete into the forms. Even though the rain held off, the structural engineer insisted that the concrete be covered by insulated tarps. Also the forms cannot be removed until Monday.
The left over concrete was used to make a temporary staircase going down into the hole.
The footing form and rebar installation is complete. Inspections by both RDOS and the structural engineer passed so we are good to start the concrete pour tomorrow morning. The pumper truck will arrive before 8 am and the many concrete trucks will start rolling in at 8:30.
Here are some pictures that John Gregg took at around 1:00 pm this afternoon.
The installation of the rebar will take longer than was first planned. Rather than 1 day, it is now expected to take 2 1/2 days. As a result the rebar people will be done Wednesday morning and the inspections will take place on Wednesday afternoon. The pour of the concrete for the retaining wall footing is now planned to start at 8:30 on Thursday morning.
Thanks to John Gregg for taking these pictures
Today our builder’s crew worked at completing the form for the retaining wall footing. The footing is 3′ thick on the sides and 1 1/2′ thick in the middle. The rock slinger was used to place several truck loads of rock into the footing to raise the centre.
Tomorrow NBE will be paving the road so our builder will have little if any access. The rebar people were busy on Friday so they will come on Monday to install the rebar for the retaining wall footing. Next Tuesday is inspection day – both RDOS and the Structural Engineer will inspect the forms and the rebar. Next Wednesday our builder is planning to pour the concrete for the retaining wall footing. Hopefully the weather will cooperate by being warm enough to pour without expensive insulated tarps and heating.