The last stage of preparing the foundations have been completed. There are two places that need reinforcement, the entertainment room (beacause of the heavy walls and roof) and around the tunnel allowing the air from the earth tubes into the house. We chopped up some steel weld mesh we had already, this has 6mm rods at 200mm grid spacing, and managed to go right around the Entertainment room’s foundation.
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We pinned it down and tied the joins together, all sitting on 50 mm thick concrete little blocks to make sure it is fully held into its correct location.
Then, we took 3 pieces of 10 mm reinforcing bars, each being 3 m long, and bent them all right angled half way along. Using some left over pieces of the weld mesh, we cable tied the three rods so they were placed 200 mm apart and again sitting on their 50 mm rocks, and also pinned down too.
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And, as they say,that is it!! Next is to order the ready mixed concrete, the free flowing kind, approximately 12 cubic metres of the stuff!