Round Windows: interior grade beams

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

interior grade beams

I was out helping for the footing pour this week. It was an intense few hours. Concrete is not very forgiving and we had to wet set some 100 rebars that will later be bent and formed into the slab.

Originally we were going to do these interior footings or grade beams as part of the slab in one monolithic pour. But as Neil was digging out for the footings the compacted gravel was sloughing too much. We are running rigid insulation under the slab, but not under the footings and we were concerned about voids under the rigid.

Since we decided on separating into 2 pours, Neil decided to form up and pour these himself instead of bringing in our concrete sub who has done the exterior walls and will do the slab. Neil used 2x4 & 2x6 material in the forms so that he could reuse the lumber in the framing stage.