Today, JBS Construction came back to dig the footers.
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Southeast View of Trenches dug for Footers
The JBS Crew
A 2 foot wide trench is dug for the concrete footers.
Building Green: Chapter 6 – Site Work
Locating Footers
August 27th, 2009 by snugganutToday, Tim and KJ use the Total Station, a digital surveying tool, to locate and mark the footers onsite as we’ve drawn them in the Construction Documents.
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Tim and KJ
Tim Flagging
Excavation
August 25th, 2009 by snugganutToday, JBS Construction was onsite excavating. The extra dirt will be used to create compressed earthen blocks, which will be used in the floor and some interior walls for thermal mass.
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JBS Construction Onsite
View from the Northeast
A silt fence was installed on the North edge of the site before excavating.
Bricks reclaimed from old Sulphur Springs site, to be used for patios.
Foundation Capillary Breaks
March 5th, 2009 by SeldomThe theoretical limit of capillary rise in concrete is about 10 kilometers—and folks that is not a typo—it really is about 10 kilometers or about 6 miles. Concrete sucks big time. In wood it is about 400 feet—the height limit trees can grow to is set by the size of the capillary pores in wood. Ever wonder how leaves get water? When you go into a forest and listen very carefully you don’t hear any pumps pumping water upwards a couple of hundred feet do you? Capillary suction is powerful stuff. When you add salt to the water the power becomes explosive—literally as we shall see…
The article goes into detail about using lime mortar as a sacrificial layer to protect brick, and detailing foundations to direct capillary water to the outside.
:: BSC | Capillarity—Small Sacrifices
