Ready for concrete

Ready for concrete
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All ready for concrete. The action starts Saturday morning.

Rebar in place

Rebar in place
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Rebar on the chairs, two sticks of No. 5 all the way around. Its a little bit of overkill, but it feels better to go overboard on it than to have an earthquake and realize we didn't go far enough.

tieing off the rebar

tieing off the rebar
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Chrissy showing hows its done.

Hogwire

Hogwire
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6"x6" hogwire flattened out, then we wired in a bunch of 1" chunks of foam in three positions all down the sections, this holds it up so that its planted inside the concrete instead of just sitting down on the bottom of the concrete.

Vapor barrier

Vapor barrier
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Visqueen spread and doubled up, then stapled up along the inside of the forms.

Had to cut the edge at an angle

It still worked out alright
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Thickened edge slab needs to have a slight angle between the pad and the footer to add some extra density in that spot.

All together

All together
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Foams down, 6 mil visqueen next.

Chrissy sealing the foam together

Chrissy sealing the foam together
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Almost to the end of the foam

IMG_0954
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4" duct tape

4" duct tape
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Foam going down, using 4" duct tape to hold everything together. Fortunately we spent a really long time making sure everything was completely flat before we started this part. This 25 psi foam board is pretty amazing stuff, holds all my weight on one foot without cracking or compressing.

Squirrel

Squirrel
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She would jump right out if given the chance.

After work today

After work today
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Picked up 17 sheets of 2" foam board insulation (R10!) for the concrete pad today. This will keep our feet from freezing solid.

The new and improved chicken run

The new and improved chicken run
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New outdoor run for the chickens. They are much happier and we are too. We put typar on the ground so that when they crap all over the place we can actually clean it up. Huge design flaw in the last run.

Cow and triplets

Cow and triplets
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Cow moose with triplets in the backyard. I dont know how common triplets are, but I haven't seen them before.

big beast

Snorri
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little beast

little beast
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2½ of the sides of the first forms up

2½ of the sides of the first forms up
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Still waiting to hear if the concrete people can make it down the driveway with a full truck. If they can, we'll do two pours, one for the footers and one for the pad. If they cant, we'll have to hire a pump trailer to run the concrete down the 268 feet from the road above. This would also mean that we'll have to do a monolithic pour which is the less preferred way for us. Less forms to build, but big pain since we need to put down 2" of extruded polystyrene and 2 more inches of gravel down under the pad but not the footers.