After almost of week of it being too wet to make any progress, our contractors, Ike and Chad, were able to get back to work yesterday and made the decision that the surevoid, a cardboard spacer that is designed to eventually rot away, had gotten too wet to fulfill it's purpose of holding the weight of the cement until dry. So they had to tear down the inside wall(it was about 3/4 done), take out the wet cardboard, replace it and rebuild the inside wall! The reason the space needs to be there is that Colorado has lots of bentonite clay that expands and contracts and can wreak havoc on a foundation. Thats why the foundation has to "float".
The Foundation walls are all up now.
The Foundation walls are all up now.
Add a bunch of wet cardboard to the haul away pile.
Replace it with new cardboard, wrapped in plastic this time in case another ocean decides to fall from the sky.
Lots of rebar in there!
3 comments:
I sure don't know anything about construction, but that sure looks like a huge gap for your foundation to float in.
Here in California, we build everything on rollers to survive earthquakes - Oh that reminds me of U of I playing roller tag in the quad! Oh that was some great fun! Who wants to play? I wonder if I have any pictures. :)
Darn, I guess I didn't explain well. The gap is only the height of the cardboard, 6-8 inches or so. The wall is anchored into the ground by the big steel piers that got drilled 35 feett down into bedrock. After the cement is poured, the forms in these pictures will be taken off and the hole will be filled back in with dirt on both sides of the wall to be level.
Does that make more sense, Mike?
Yay! It's moving along!!!
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