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Prepping for Pouring Concrete

Bob visits Phil Truit as he pours a concrete slab in an existing building.

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Prepping for Pouring Concrete

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" You're pouring about what if you're sixty yards in here today. And now why do we need such an elaborate contraption with the fabulous pump truck. -- delivers factory down into. Do -- health system yeah I think this. And we cannot back the truck up to that there's no way to get in exactly though we did they take the bloom go into the basement. The next Vila Robert my right and we hope Packard. And how long as the -- itself that it -- 28 meters 28 meter right -- that's closed under me. And then you've got how many feet inside you've got another 120 -- lying inside of the payload is almost over 200 feet away. What kind of a -- doing that now. Now as far as possible. I see its down moments and that most -- maximum would be 950 -- as I had -- 120 yards an hour. Don't get range back. Great and this whole thing -- the German manufactured product right at its impact and Germany ahead something in the United States are one last question what you thought. About 300 went through very thousand dollars it's beautiful -- bill."

" aria un NATO. I'm glad I found here is I did want to talk -- about a little bit of the existing conditions of the structure before we -- concrete I noticed this the other day this is the original eighteenth thirteen brick wall. And it starts off right on top of the dirt that's right that's Roy and this is pretty much typical what we now for the foundation hole courses supports -- here. But as you can see there's a lot of -- here is the soil line density and really good bearing -- type structure is not used to seeing big New England granite slabs and them fabric goes up -- has worked at all energy will also work as pressure especially in this -- the structures almost intact the Nazi -- the -- from that the heart towards -- on the corner here. And all these timbers have been hacked away at you've done something here. Yeah we've had a bad off we're getting some some accountant units up there -- in the old part of the mansion yeah and with. A few minor problems and structures and excellent in this yes I'll -- now out here we can see where you've had to. Put in those those those new footings yet to underpin the the whole perimeter of the house didn't you. That's right. Bob for primarily the exterior walls and this is right under the front door of the house is brought out of the front door of the house -- continues around the exterior wall and then we have to interior walls that we had so. Underpinning means that you dug out underneath the existing -- all with the wall and -- poured concrete down what two -- three feet two -- three -- that's right on the average around three feet and -- wood continues to you have to staggered you have to do it and in seconds we have three different segments that we -- number one for example hop skip and move ourselves around and then leave the door in between those segments that we -- right now you need it this expansion joint material in -- all of this expansion joint that's right. And it's a buffer between here and between new concrete and the existing partitions. So we'll have one uniform. Floor level in here as opposed to the three that we -- debt that's correct that's correct what's the rebar in here for an angle. That's called crack control and that's it all the openings in the tries would be some of the some of the cracks as we go. -- opening OK and here we see where we've got a big old holes coming through rubber -- And this is I don't like to be around it must have never seen one go but seeing one go before and it's not a pretty sight in fact even more on their. They're intact or that handles that he needs more than a few men and I -- concrete under pressure. So I guess this is where the guys got their rubber boots on in the left their leather boots that's right let loose concrete don't."

" Their and here's where you can really see where we had the difference the different floor levels that's right we have three different floor levels and that was the highest. Right right now what we're gonna be flooring on top of it crushed stone about it. That's correct yes I'll say. -- decision. And then you've got the -- this week. That we have reports on top of that floor again with -- by six number ten wire. Life that's full. We -- right."

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