ok so today my dad's best friend and his kid hit the frost walls. they setup yesterday with louis helping to make sure everything was played out properly since he is the one who knows the project being we have no plans. lol this is how we roll. what pool house? we aren't building nothing. if we were there would be plans. duuuhhh.
done.
yes it was only about 250 block but joe is 75. he can move with the best of them. i think louis was impressed too cause he stopped by to make sure everything was right. all is good. sunday louis and myself are going to strap all the conduits to the frost walls and get hem lined up for backfill and prep for pad pour. i am thinking monday and tuesday he will get the machine back in to trench out the sewer drops, backfill and gravel. so we are in good shape.
i talked to my buddy who is framing and said we are all set for the spring or end of winter. i said whenever he feels comfortable framing after new years to hit it so we can start bricking early spring when its still cool out since there is a ton of detail and brick work.
thanks for follow for those that are. i have always loved the building process. i thrive on these kinda projects. i hope no one minds me sharing every detail, but i know i love pics and explanations of things i research that i don't know about even if others know it forward and backwards.
you can see in the 1 pic the opening between the house corner and the pool house corner where the fence wit hate will run. you can also see how there will be a raised bed for planting that runs along the porch wall and curves around to the 2 windows and fireplace pop out. that just happened to work out that everything will be nice a squared off.
the other pic you can see the multitiered brick ledge so we can lower the elevation of the slope off me into my neighbor so i don't flood his yard with water in heavy rain. i will still have the higher ground but won't be as bad. also helped with my grade off the back corner into the woods by the pad.
oh and that cleanup for the sewer, ya 1 inch from the finished brick. lol totally didn't plan it that way but man did we get lucky that we didn't have to dig it out and move it.
you can also see the inner ledge that the poor will sit on the inner 6 inches of the 12 in ch block. this will lock in the pour wit the block so nothing moves. this is the whole point of doing frost walls vs just a pad. the frost walls lock the pour in place along with giving more weight support. brick ledge is 6 inches cause my brick on my home are jumbos so you need 1 inch air gap so 5 inches to set the brick and have wiggle room for something being out of square. a lot of masons let brick hang 1 inch off the brick ledge if need be. joe never ever wants to be hanging. he would rather have extra space. that;s why there are solids on the jack for the rear wall and part of the sidewall. gives him is 6 inches for brick but still gives lou and myself the space to sit the pour on to lock in the pub to the walls.
just for those who don't know this and was wondering.
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