may 9 remove all the form and beam work and guess what so far the concrete beam are still standing.  alot of clean up to be done and then doug will start doing some finish up insulation on the footings .

final pour of concrete in walls

april 30,  we did our final pour .   we had alot of help from friends and that saved the day.  dick and ann meeuwsen,  and their son ben.  marvin vandyke,  brent hunter,  and the flemmers concrete crew.   only had one bad blow out that we fixed and got on with.   roughly 12 to 13 yards of concrete plus  mikes concrete pumping truck.    on this last pour we were spanning the window openings so we had to hold up the wet concrete with wood beams and plywood  we cut the center of the rastra block out and built wood forms around the top of the wall to hold the rastra during the pour .    there also is four 5/8 rebar continuous around this header beam.  this last portion took several months to prep for with all the forms to build and install.  we had to stage anchor bolts in the window and door openings so they would be embedded in the concrete.  also had to make sure anchor bolts got install in the top round of this header beam to hold down the trusses.  The walls without the floor inside the house are roughly 13 foot tall so we had a crew of four pushing scaffolding around during the pour.  we also had several people up ladders and some of the concrete folks were walking the wall .  It is the most exhausting two hours from start to finish , glad i don't do it for a living.   Masonary fireplace will be our next big project with the suspended floor going in before the trusswork will be installed.