As we've stated in previous posts our dream is to build a mortgage free, energy efficient Irish cottage... with roses climbing up the front wall... like this:
And here (drum roll, please) is our first baby climbing rose:
My big news is that the first vertical footing-bond beam 3" core got poured today with rebar... each core will be poured like shown below and then tied to a horizontal length of rebar that runs continuously around the top of the AAC block wall effectively tying the walls together from top to bottom and side-to-side:
I almost got the 12th course on the west wall completed today which only leaves the bond beam to pour above it (the rebar from the shot above is barely visible in the center of this far wall (look closely... it parallels the top of the wall right in the middle):
Now I have to tackle the north front wall (courses 11 and 12) and set the HUGE AAC lintels over the windows and the front door... HELP!:
And here (drum roll, please) is our first baby climbing rose:
My big news is that the first vertical footing-bond beam 3" core got poured today with rebar... each core will be poured like shown below and then tied to a horizontal length of rebar that runs continuously around the top of the AAC block wall effectively tying the walls together from top to bottom and side-to-side:
I almost got the 12th course on the west wall completed today which only leaves the bond beam to pour above it (the rebar from the shot above is barely visible in the center of this far wall (look closely... it parallels the top of the wall right in the middle):
Now I have to tackle the north front wall (courses 11 and 12) and set the HUGE AAC lintels over the windows and the front door... HELP!:
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