We used 8 tons of rebars for this house and close to 100 cubic meters of concrete for the whole constructions.
Pouring concrete inside brick wall.
Cut a 2x12 to length or splice it with a cleat for one side of the concrete forms and nail it.
Allow concrete to cure.
Follow the instructions on the bag of cement and mix accordingly.
Project step by step 16 prepare the site.
When a foundation is poured its footing a wide flat base made from concrete and reinforced steel designed to support the walls is poured first and then the walls are poured on top after.
Then you are ready to begin.
Set and level one side.
Contact your local building department to see whether a permit is required and how close to the lot.
Pour the retaining wall.
The hollow block wall is depending solely on the strength of the thin mortar bed between each concrete block.
Once you have mixed the cement in the cement mixer dump it into the wheelbarrow.
2 pour an interior.
The poured concrete wall has more mass or interlocking cement paste crystals to resist the cracking force.
Nail the board to your concrete footing.
Create contraction joints every 4 6 feet.
If the wall exceeds four feet in height footings should be poured separately.
Typically a wheelbarrow or even a five gallon bucket or will suffice for a mixing container.
This brick house is built to withstand 8 5 earthquakes on richter scale and thus it has strong structure made with re bars and concrete.
Roll the wheelbarrow of cement over to your wooden forms and pour the cement into the footing and form area.
Use your concrete mixer until the material has been properly stirred.
Finish the surface of the wall as desired.
Masonry walls like concrete tend to be damp dreary and unpleasant.
Lay a 2 by 4 board flat on its wide side on the concrete so the edge of the board is 3 4 of an inch away from your string to the outside of the wall.
How to frame an inside wall against a concrete wall.
You do not want the board to be inside the wall area.
The addition of reinforcing steel to either wall system complicates the issue.
We used brick blocks for the interior and exterior walls.
Stake and brace the side form.
However if you are using the concrete to attempt to fix cracks you will need to add rebar to the other side of the crack in order to tie it all together.
Nail a 2 by 4 to the concrete footing.
See below for more information on contraction joints remove forms and install waterproofing and drainage system.