We completed the Assembly of the cellular framework in the rest of the Floor Slab, namely the Entertainment Room, Bedroom 2 and then Bedroom 3 and Utility Room.

Floor-slab-Cells-Day-2

Floor-slab-Cells-Day-2

We then went around pinning into place all the fluffy expansion strips onto the framework where the 5 Energy Modules are, plus some extra pieces to aid possible concrete expansion when the whole Floor Slab warms up. That didn’t take so long and we finished up by putting concrete blocks on every “T” junction of the framework to weigh it down against the buoyancy when the heavy liquid concrete gets poured in. We calculated that the weight displaced by the OSB 100mm high strips will be approximately 3kg per every metre plus another 2kg displaced for the fluffy strips so in some lengths of the framework, it could add up to 15kg from junction to junction. We put plenty of concrete blocks weighing 20kg each on every junction so the total weight from all these blocks should counteract the uplift from the liquid concrete.

By Shaun

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