The house next door...or how to NOT build a house

[jdurand]

7 hours of pouring later

[Toolmaker51]

Ohh good. The goofy wall with sonotube posts still visible.
But 7 hours pumping mud thrown Earths rotational axis for a tizzy?

[jdurand]

We had to go out so didn't count cement trucks, but when we had to get out of the driveway the head contractor said each truck is about 10 minutes.

So, 7 hours * 6 trucks per hour = 42 trucks (of course, the answer to everything!). Figure 10 yards per truck that's 420 yards. And they haven't even started the basement walls yet!

[jdurand]

Today's pit. That's a mighty tall wall!

[jdurand]

They weren't kidding about a 14' basement!

[Toolmaker51]

14' basement. 2+ foot slab.
All is forgiven; provided
1] the 14' is headroom allowance for a 1.5 ton overhung bridge crane.
2] it's travel connects three major machine tools also located in basement 24" x 80 engine lathe, 4'' horizontal boring mill and a 5' x 11'' radial drill.
3] remedy access issue, no forklift ramp!
when jdurand sends pics of floor joists going in without iron in the basement, we'll know a owner off his rocker.

[jdurand]

Today's picture, MORE rebar.

Also I see they'r fitting the forms to their precisely cast columns/wall

[jdurand]

Today's update

[jdurand]

O hope once they get around to setting the inside forms they support them better than the ones on the outside.

oh why, it's more entertaining if they don't

[jdurand]

Second layer of wall rebar going in. MORE STEEL!