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Sixth course of blocks and boom pump concrete
truck--
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| Laying out the boards which will support
the I-beams that are our floor joists. These board's will be mounted
to the DAC-ART wall w/ a vapor barrier and will continue all the way around the perimeter
of the garage. |
As the height increases, it becomes necessary to
have a concrete delivery truck with a very tall boom pump.
The lift handles are supposed to be set so that
they guide the next block down into place. Sometimes it works out and sometimes
not. If the handles are not installed properly at the factory, we will have
alignment problems when the blocks are stacked. If this happens, we have to
either cut off the handles, or beat them down with a sledgehammer and hope that
we don't damage the blocks in the process.
This is a good example of seeing the hollows in
the blocks that allows the back-fill concrete that is poured into them after
they are stacked to flow both side to side and up and down. The blue stuff is
sheet foam insulation that is there to help insulate the blocks. At this point
we are not sure what the R Value of our walls will be, but plan to do a bit of
research and math and add some comments on that later.
Photos by Jerry Nasello
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04/27/2008
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