So, I was able to snap off a couple of photos with my phone so I can get them posted. Doug and Marty were working with the concrete crew- Rob and Floyd and Jay, Glenn was pumping concrete. I was in my clothes of the office so I just moved the hose and electrical cord around. The crew had to vibrate the concrete to get it down to the bottom of the rastra block.
Here are the photos:
So what is in this picture? The rastra is 3 courses high. That is the grey block. The ledger board is in place. That can be seen on the inside. It wraps all around the inside of the house. The floor joists will be suspended from the ledger. On the outside the strapping board can be seen. The ledger board is held against the wall with anchor bolts embedded into the concrete. So, until the concrete is pour everything is hanging in air. The ledger board has been strapped with banding tape and the board seen on the outside keep the banding tape from pulling through the rastra. The rebar coming out of the block will continue up through the next course. Looking closely at knee level there is green line. This marks out a window. The crew is outside of Helen's room at this location.
After this pour we will continue up with our walls. We are thinking of doing the remaining walls in 2 pours of 4' each. The Rob our concrete guy thought that would work better than doing it all in one pour. There is so much rebar in the wall that the concrete has a hard time moving down to the bottom of the cells.
Very exciting day
