Alright, so the removal of school for this vision here is going to be to remove this glass sunroom and this is going to become an extension of a dining room which is on that side and a kitchen which is on this side. The other part of the construction that you’re seeing behind me is going to become the best – in that tree.
Right now what we’re doing here, look at the foundation for this project here in Rocky Hill. Its cross base foundations are the first thing that we’re doing. Just dif it down about 42 inches just keeping out for the footers sweep below the cross line. Once we get this all dug out we’ll get you back to the next things in the project pouring footer to the wall.
So right now we’re standing at the kitchen and what we’ll do right here is we’re going to remove the entire wall. From that point in the corner all the way down into the dining room which is this way. Alright so as you can see we’re in the dining room now and this is the other part of the wall that we’re going to take out and right up to this corner here. Now one of the biggest problems with this here I should say obstacles that we’re going to have to overcome is that we’re going to need to hatter of this entire ceiling which has a span of about 20 feet. Now once we actually take this apart and we get up into the ceiling and we see how it’s destructed, we will have a better idea of the types of materials that we can use. The over all goal here is going to be to eliminate any columns running through the center of the open.
So right now we’re standing on one of the bedrooms which is currently being used as an office but when this project is complete, this office is going to become the new master bath. And the activity that you see behind me again is the excavation and after this wall is where we going to blow out the new edition which will be the master suite. Now what we’re going to do here basically is we’re going to keep this part of the wall which could be used for the bath room. Right about this area here we’re going to create the wall point to the hallway into the new—
So what we’re looking at here is the excavated area where additions going to go. Now these forms all over all the perimeter here over the footers we’re going to be poured. Now as you see here on this edition that was poured probably ten years ago or so are very similar to what we’re going to be doing today. The first step of pouring is going to be just the footers in here and it’s similar to this. Now once these footers are completely dried and cured forms are going to be come off and the next step is going to be to pour the foundation walls which is something like this and that’s going to sit on top of the footers and it’s going to also follow the perimeter. Now once all the perimeter footers get poured the next footers that were going to pour are these center footers in the middle of the edition. These are going to support some lally columns that are going to hold the main carrying beam from this and all the way to the house. Now on top of this main carrying beam we’re going to rest our floor choice that are running across at a 20 foot span. Now next thing to know here is the dept of the footers, the north east the cold states that you have to be at least 42 inches deep below grade. Grade means basically right where the grass is. The reason for that is the frost doesn’t go any deeper than 42 inches and it’s not going to push the edition off during the season when the ground freezes.
So our concrete truck is here. In the next couple of minutes when we start pouring the footers. Alright, so right now we’re starting to pour the concrete for the footers. Concrete mix that we’re using is the 3000 CSI high spring concrete mix. This are what uses like the high spring mix that secures the way to the whole edition relying on the footers.
Alright, today is a busy day here at— edition on the project so what we’ll do in the first step here is to sit pulley in the corner over there just drilling hole which to tie that foundation. What’s he going to be doing is he is going to be ramming grid bar in their and there’re going to fed, it’s going to be put at the new foundation wall which going to have some kind of mechanical connection to the existing foundation and the new foundation using a ped.
So I’m looking at the basement window right now and you could see the marking that where we’re going to be putting a cut. The reason for the cut is so we have a walk in from the old basement to the new foundation. The new foundation’s only going to be a 3 foot close space that we need to cut an opening so we have access to run all your utilities into the new basement.
Okay, so we have a form set up on the concrete footers and we’re about ready start pouring the concrete but you notice everything’s square and we got some strings here to make sure that everything is perfectly square on the on the level and plum.
Alright as you can a look down here as we’re talking about the poured these are he pins that— into the existing foundation that are going to give a good mechanical fasten, fastening to the new concrete wall.
Alright, so this red line right here represents the height of our foundation wall. Something that Tony’s going to use as a guide for himself through out the rest of his pouring.
Alright, so we’re here today and we pour our concrete walls and we’ve already stripped the forms. So now we got a nice fresh concrete wall and what we have here are the angle bars. These are going to be used to top plate so it’s basically our session what’s going to do is keep the entire structure from blowing away. It’s going to give a good mechanical fastening— to the concrete.
So now we’re standing inside the cross phase foundation and today we’re going to be pouring the floors. Right now what Tony is doing over here is using the laser level so we can make sure that when he pours the pour it’s nice and leveled. We use this red chalk light slight when he’s pouring to make sure consistently level all around the walls.
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