This is the first course of the front wall - it has all the form locks and then the rebar put in. The product is really nice because the rebar just lays in the webbing so you don't have to tie it like we did with the footers.
Back to cutting and bending rebar!
This is the first course of the side wall - you can maybe see the rebar in the bottom a little better in this picture. I'm continually amazed at all the pre-planning design work had to go into this. All of those candy cane footing dowels are coming up in the center of the form and none interfered with the webs.
Jim and Bryan putting in the form locks - they look like wire ladders and they fit over the top and hold everything in place.
Corners have to be done first...here they are starting the second course.
This corner was extra challenging. This is the buttress wall - they had to make a custom interface to connect the buttress wall to the exterior wall. This involved cutting through the corner form to run rebar and to allow the concrete to flow through the entire form.
This is the back wall footer where the forms jog up the first step.
This is a different type of form. You can see where the inside bows out - this will form a ledge that the floor slab will rest on as well as be used to mount the alignment system on the inside.
Jim uses a big mallet to connect the blocks together.
Some of the insulated concrete forms Jim ordered come unassembled so you can customize things a bit more. Assembling just requires fitting in the right size webs.
The back outside wall is all formed - you can see the ledger better from this view.
Jim and Bryan seating the ledger on the side wall. This wall was interesting too. On this side and the front, Jim has to account for brick on the outside. If you look closely on this piece that they are seating, it doesn't have the keyed Lego blocks. This is so the concrete will flow right to the edge of the form and allow for placement of the brick. Again - all of this had to be designed and thought about so it's amazing to see it all come together.
The side wall is formed.
This is the front wall - again, certain pieces have both ledger inside and the taper top to allow for slab and brick placement.
Wow - things are really taking shape! Jim called to see if the building inspector could come Friday morning possibly but couldn't get in touch with him. Even though things are close to being all formed, there's a lot of work to be done to get ready for concrete. Lots of steel work, reinforcement, leveling...plus they are calling for spotty thundershowers the next couple days. But no matter - lots of progress is being made!
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