Basement walls go up
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
It's now in the middle of August. We have to hurry this along because the house has to be framed, roofed, and sided by October in order to have a dry house before the rains.
We finally are allowed to rent the forms for a mere $3200. It took 2 trips just to get them here. These forms are 2 foot by 8 foot metal frames with smooth wood - they weigh about 80 lbs each. You put them together a little like an erector set with wedges that pin them together. Here, you see a picture of the inside forms with the rebar that will be encased by the cement:
In the meantime, some guy takes his recycling seriously:
The door buck for the basement door is installed (notice all the rebar around it):
Finally the outside walls are put up, with scaffolding on the inside and a creative use for scaffolding planks around the outside:
I didn't get a picture of all of us (about 6) going around the outside with the line pumper putting in the cement and jiggling it - mostly because I was helping out by holding one of the jigglers.
Moment of truth when the first panel is removed:
And here it is in all of its glory:
A little problem getting the forms out without killing ourselves (we're all pretty exhausted by now). So we ended up renting an extending forklift:
Quotes
Two major mistakes are frequently made in early intervention, Greenspan believes: 1. taking a mininmalist approach which does not provide the family enough team support; and 2. overlooking family dynamics to such a degree that early intervention becomes, not a support to the family, but another source of familial stress. Intervention must consider the well-being of the family as paramount, and avoid the tempation of viewing the child as if he or she existed in isolation.