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Post date: May 19, 2015 4:15:00 AM
I got to work early this morning (about 6 am) and returned the borrowed ladder we used to suspend the garden hose (which I also stowed) for the tent over the garage (to finish the concrete in the rain). Then I removed the plastic sheet from atop the slab, which looked pretty good, except for a few ridges in the study floor (left photo). We later ground those ridges down easily with a diamond blade with an electric hand grinder.Laying out chalk lines for the inner wall was tedious and took half the day. We had to get the sills parallel, perpendicular at the corners, the right distance apart, and the right distance from the bolts that will secure them to the foundation. We first laid out using blue chalk, which is easier to sweep away when we were not quite accurate enough, then we snapped lines with red chalk. Critical marks were made permanent in the corners by spraying with clear acrylic lacquer.
The rest of the day we cut and drilled pressure-treated wooden sills, which you can see in the photos, while three of the crew created a solid base for the entry patio and the garage entry apron. The foundation for the patio is three feet below the slab, while the garage apron simply cantilevers off the front of the garage foundation. Both are tied to the foundation with reinforcing steel rods that are currently sticking out through the black waterproofing material on the outer face of the foundation. In the photo of the garage (right), you can see the sheet metal duct sticking above the concrete in one corner. This will bring slab-tempered air up to a fan. There is no furnace in the garage.>>> Next <<<
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