Top rated - Chiyman's Low Cost House - Part 2 - Ground slab and ground to first floor cloumns
Ground floor slab formwork completed and ready for concrete pour the next day. The bathroom (with the blue pipe sticking out) will be formed at a lower level and cast seperatelychiyman (0 votes)
The waste from the downstairs toilet will be collected in this tank formed from precast concrete rings - this one is 4 rings deep.chiyman (0 votes)
Ground floor slab completed - the part nearest the concrete mixer will be brushed once it has semi cured.chiyman (0 votes)
Everything ready for pouring the Ground floor slabchiyman (0 votes)
Note the reinfocement for the ground floor slab (mesh) was tied onto the ground beam reinforcement for extra strength.chiyman (0 votes)
placing pegs in the ground as a depth guide for the ground floor slabchiyman (0 votes)
Materials for construction of the column formworkchiyman (0 votes)
Pouring concrete into the column formwork - a highly manual process - effective though!!chiyman (0 votes)
A delivery of Yucca poles freshly cut which will be used later for the first floor constructionchiyman (0 votes)
Further ground floor to first floor column formwork constructionchiyman (0 votes)
Ground floor slab completed. starting to build the formwork for the Ground floor to first floor columnschiyman (0 votes)
Completed Ground slab brushed finish ready to accept floor tiling later onchiyman (0 votes)