Bucking Windows

Master and Commander a.k.a. Chief Window Bucker!

The army paid a visit for a thorough inspection of the work so far. They felt a little tweaking was necessary. From left to right, Lieutenant Tompson, Staff Sergeant Timson and Corporal Summer

Different stages of the pour, showing the integrity of walls and rebar spacing.

The third concrete pour. Jim runs this show with precision. Kirk had to ensure that concrete fell all the way down to the top of the previous pour. He said it was hard work and needed lots of muscle to push cement into all of the vacuums inside the blocks.

View through to the dining room. We changed the original design of the
window layout, from one large slider to three casement windows.

Kirk making final adjustments to corners in preparation for the next concrete pour

Floored!

The crew so far, Wayne, ex pro football player, Jim, ex state champion wrestler and Kirk master golfer. Big hands, big feet, big gentlemen!.

Tim in his bedroom.

This view shows the sub floor and continuation of blocks

Framing around the fire place. Thank heavens for brawn and muscle, these joists were heavy, not to mention the wear and tear on backs and knees with all of the bending and moving underneath the joists in what is now the crawl space

Inside the stem wall, we positioned pony walls for the floor joists to sit on. Here is the long view of the first floor (Eng. ground floor )

Raising Walls

Rain or shine, the show must go on.

Per the engineering plans, re-bar had to positioned every 2 ft on most parts of the house and every 1 ft on the front of the house where we have more windows.

Miscellaneous pipes had to be added. Here is some of the plumbing.

Stem wall, bracing for pony walls and vent bucks.

Interior view shows preparation for the masonry wood stove. It's a big one and thus needs to have a separate footing.