TYThere's been a fair amount of work on the site over the last couple of weeks. I wanted to show it all together, so you could see the progress. Also, I was lazy busy.
Here's what the site looked like on the 5th of May. Still drilling and digging the sumps in the foreground and working on the foundations starting from the north east.
There was still some measuring of walls to do to figure out where the sumps should end. This gets done with twine and measuring tape, because that is still the best way to do it.
On the left is my slightly crazy swiss architect, Georg, wearing the cycling shorts. He and I had cycled out to the site on that day to take a look at it. Incidentally, he's the chap that got me hooked on bikes in the first place.
He's talking to the contractor and site engineer. Behind him you can see where they've started work on a couple of columns.
Foundational work holds up load bearing walls. Columns are used either where you don't have walls or where you don't want load bearing walls. They are made of reinforced concrete. You take some metal rods, worked into a shape, plop that in the ground and pour concrete around it. There are three columns in the house. Two over here, the third one is out on the left out f frame.
On the right is the first batch of steel I bought. I have since then bought another batch. Some of this is for columns and the rest is for the the plinth work.
The plinth is the a reinforced concrete structure that the holds the floor and holds up the walls. It lies in between the foundation and the brick walls.
More about plinth work later.
A week later, they had finished about half the foundation and sump work for the other three sumps. The two large ones are for rain water. The smaller one on the bottom right is for borewell or corporation water (if it ever comes).
And here's what it looked like a week after that. It's at full height now and they've started working on the internal plastering and water proofing.
They've started digging to put in a retaining wall on the western side of the plot. This is because we're bringing in a lot of earth to flatten the site which drops about 4 feet east to west.
I think this entry has gotten quite large already. I'll talk about the plinth work that has been started in the next update.
He's talking to the contractor and site engineer. Behind him you can see where they've started work on a couple of columns.
Foundational work holds up load bearing walls. Columns are used either where you don't have walls or where you don't want load bearing walls. They are made of reinforced concrete. You take some metal rods, worked into a shape, plop that in the ground and pour concrete around it. There are three columns in the house. Two over here, the third one is out on the left out f frame.
The plinth is the a reinforced concrete structure that the holds the floor and holds up the walls. It lies in between the foundation and the brick walls.
More about plinth work later.
I think this entry has gotten quite large already. I'll talk about the plinth work that has been started in the next update.
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