Week Eight

 

Week eight belonged to the blocklayers. They started on the basement walls. Progress moves slowly, as they can only lay four vertical feet at a time. The work has to be inspected before they can proceed any higher. Once inspected, there's another wait for the the wall to be grouted.

I took a bunch of photos on film, which I haven't developed yet, so I just have this one digital photo of the work in progress. Kind of boring for the folks who log in every day, hungry for new images, but good for keeping my ever-burgeoning bandwith usage down.

I talked to the guy in charge of the blocklayers. The blocks are 8x12x16. They weigh about 45 pounds apiece. They can lay about 300 of these blocks per day. I lifted one, and would estimate my blocklaying abilities at about no blocks per day. There's a layer of bond beam every fourth course. Bond beam block allows the placement of horizontal rebar. You can see the horizontal rebar in the shot to the right. They were waiting for the second inspection, which went also fine. The wall has since been grouted.

When this thing is complete, it will be way more solid that a 1950's bomb shelter.

Note: there are only two windows in the basement. Two windows equals two lintels. Just a program note. Hi, Mike!
I'll develop my film and post some action shots of the blocklayers at work.

And for those looking for info on our young scholar, Justin, we had a due-process hearing Thursday afternoon with the Assistant Principal and the Dean of Discipline. It seemed to go well, and there's a good possibility that Justin will be allowed to come back next week. We'll see.

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