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Laying out the pile locationsRick B
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Driving 7m long piles for the house footers. A total of 32 piles were driven for the house, which has a first floor foot print of 17.3m x 16.1m. Rick B
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Laying out the footer locations and dimensionsRick B
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Assembling the rebar cages for the columns. Rick B
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This is a double pile footer arrangement. A single column will come out of this hole.Rick B
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Footer hole with single pile now ready for footer rebar cage. Pile was driven into ground about 1 meter below grade. Hole was prepared with compacted sand and cement, about 10cm thick each.Rick B
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Raising the ceremonial columns. Our ceremony involved two columns.Rick B
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A typical footer and column placed on top of a single pile.Rick B
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All columns for the house are now raised.Rick B
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Columns have been poured from the footer up to just below the first floor elevated beams. Rebar for beam to hold wall surrounding the crawl space is also being assembled.Rick B
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Blocks installed on top of ground level beam to enclose the crawl spaceRick B
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