Jim headed to the storage unit this morning to pick up the rebar bender and a few things he needed.
Then it was back to a little shoring - these connections go from the beam to the curb on the pour stop.
Then it was back to deck details. Here's a picture of how the stubs of electric conduit pass through the holes in the end caps.
After mulling it over last night, Jim came up with a plan to use some electric conduit to put the Pex through to make the circuit connections. In the bottom half of this picture, you can see that he drilled holes in the decking and put conduit through. In the top half, he'll put the Pex through the U shaped conduit to avoid the shear pins.
Here Jim is making a pipe that will be used for bathroom plumbing.
I got to bend hooks in some 1/2" rebar that Jim will use to extend horizontally into the pour stop area to provide more strength for the concrete.
Back up on the roof, Jim had to cut some of the side pieces of rebar because he will bend them to extend into the pour stop area.
He heated up the rebar with the torch...
Since the saw was already up on the deck, he finished cutting the excess rebar off the other side pieces.
Jim was in a bit of a quandary about the plumbing. This is such a different situation than just normal construction with wood. Now, all of these pipes that he puts in the deck now will be cast in concrete. That will make it difficult later to connect two fixed pipes together. He will have to probably build some of the plumbing below to make that easier.
Here's the utility pass throughs so far...
Plumbing is tough - there are so many intricacies to the codes and they are interpreted differently, so it's not one of Jim's favorite tasks. He was trying to decide what size stack to use. He decided to put in a 6" stack - that way he can always use a smaller size pipe later on and it won't cause any issue.
He then got out his grinder and cut a hole manually - definitely not an easy task to use a flat grinder to cut a round hole on the corrugated surface of this heavy-gauge steel decking!
But check it out - a beautiful 6" hole with the pipe fit inside! We've had gorgeous weather lately - cloudless skies and lots of sunshine - however, all that hot sun beating down on the steel deck makes things really hot! Jim has to kneel on a piece of wood because the surface gets so warm. And I have to bug him about reapplying sunscreen - the decking reflects all those rays!
The scaffolding was supposed to be delivered today between 2:00 and 5:00. As time got later and later, Jim hated to start a big project knowing that the driver would probably call from the end of the driveway and Jim would have to scurry down to meet him. But we needed to keep working, so we decided to cut and bend the rest of the rebar we would need. Jim figured out the right length and then cut the pieces that I had bent this morning.
We used up all our 1/2" rebar pieces so we had to use 5/8" pieces - it's a huge difference in trying to bend them and Jim had to do that job.
After he got them all cut and bent, we took them back up to the deck and laid them out. Tomorrow he will weld them into place and that job will be done.
Still no scaffolding in sight, so Jim decided to glue the pipe down so that it would be held in place during the concrete pour.
Then he glued down the electric conduit pass throughs.
He used up the rest of the tube to fill in little holes so that no concrete will drip through the decking. Later on, that will be one of my jobs.
We cleaned up and still no scaffolding. Jim finally got in touch with someone at the trucking company and they said the guy was delayed and still out on a delivery. By this time it was after 5:30 so Jim told them they would have to deliver tomorrow. We had to get home in time to clean up and watch the Cavs beat the Bulls in the playoffs!
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