Bryan awoke at 5am today, got dressed and set out to pour the walls for our new home. Concrete was scheduled to arrive at 8am, and thanks to the help of many good friends (Luke, Jon, Blex and Ben), all preparations were made and the pouring of the walls began shortly after 8am.
Without going into too much construction detail, it's quite simple. You put together these foam forms that will serve as the mold for your exterior walls. The key word is "the mold". Without proper bracing, the weight of the wet concrete can easily blow out the foam mold at any weak seam. Bryan did a great job bracing and patching any seam with OSB (plywood) but the chance of a blowout always exists. I anxiously awaited to hear from Bryan this morning. It was the first time I had ever prayed this prayer "Dear God, thank you for all of the great blessings you give us, and by the way...please no blow outs, God!" Thanks to Bryan's great preparation, and I'm sure, some help from God, we had no blow outs.
God has continued to bless us with decent weather (most days) and very little snow. He knew we needed to get these walls poured. THANK YOU GOD! Tonight and tomorrow we are scheduled to get over 12 inches of snow. Walls, just in the nick of time.
2 comments:
How exciting...it is really moving along! Before you know it, you all will be moved it. I wish I had the talent that Bryan has to be able to do the all around home building and other stuff that he does, that is just awesome! I am very excited for you guys. It will be fun to see the finished product, especially for you guys...what a cool deal:)
love,
jed
Sorry - I haven't had a chance to check your blog in a while. Looks like the house is coming along pretty well. I hope I get a chance to see it when I come to Brainerd next weekend. I will be the only one that will be able to make the trip due to the doctor telling Kristi that she can not fly, a huge bummer for us but I have your number and hopefully we can get together and get cought up on old and new times. Take Care!!
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