By Charles Lockhart, John Carroll
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• completing the home: wall and flooring coverings striking inside doorways fitting trim and cupboards construction stairs
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Low-slump concrete is a lot harder to place and finish than high-slump concrete. There is a tendency, therefore, on the part of the workers in the field to want to add water to the concrete. Ready-mix trucks carry water for this purpose. Ready-mix concrete suppliers, however, carefully document the amount that is added, both at the plant and during the pour. The reason they do this is because the amount of water mixed into concrete has a direct impact on the strength and durability of the finished product.
Corner stake Corner stake B = 40 4 2 Set a second string on the other pair of batter boards; carefully adjust this string until it’s parallel to and exactly 24 ft. away from the first string. This string represents the outside edge of the other long wall. 648 A = 24 Use geometry to calculate the hypotenuse of a right triangle with an Altitude of 24 and a Base of 40. 648 diagonally across from the two marks on the first string, and mark the third and fourth corners on the second string. f r A M i n g f l o o r s , wA l l s , A n d c e i l i n g s 27 STEP 4 record the layout on the batter boards According to the plan, the foundation walls are 8 in.
These measurements include the distances from the pivot point to: the inside and outside of the footing trench; the inside and outside of the concrete footing; the inside and outside of the foundation wall; and the center of the foundation wall. Mark the beam compass with foundation dimensions. You can make the beam compass on site, using a strip of wood and a nail for the pivot. A fourth system, which is used to save money, is the permanent wood foundation, or PWF. There are many types of masonry units, including natural and man-made stone, structural clay tile, clay brick, concrete block, terra-cotta, and glass block.