49G. Une terrasse pour le gîte ! 1. LA FONDATION (sous-titres)
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information. Albert EINSTEIN I am an individual amateur who learns from his mistakes. Please take this into account when viewing! We are going to tackle the terrace: the foundations, what am I going to do? I'm going to break the cement slab on this part that I could slice and break after that, but… it will make a lot of dust, a lot of noise and a lot of work because I don't know much that it's a slab that stays clean, so I'm going to try to break it directly with a jackhammer here, go all the way around there, break this edge and I'm going to make my foundation just perpendicular behind the wall of the old building.
. If you don't know what I'm talking about here's a video here 👆 where I took this building apart the roof was completely rotten and there was no scrap metal in the masonry etc… it held until now it's not the no problem, far from it, very far from it, Sometimes we want to do too much, I think, but hey, in short. as I redo, I redo as I think it should be done, at least I try to do the best. so I'm going to dig up that whole part, make a foundation and do it neatly.
With my son, he was the one who maneuvered the tractor to move the beams, slabs and blocks that will be used to build the terrace for me. I take this opportunity to thank warmly, and with love I will even say, my neighbor Cyrille for the loan of his tractor 👍 thank you Cyrille 🙏 and therefore my son at the maneuver, I must say that I am very proud of him ! because I don't think I can handle the pallet lifter like that! well here we go, we're going to take the big jackhammer and we're going to break this plate. I'm digging the excavation I might be able to blow up these pieces with a pick. It will be easier than expected But they still hardened it to I don't know what dose of cement? It's blue but it breaks because of vibrations because it's hollow underneath it's kind of a raft otherwise it wouldn't have broken like that Maybe it'll be cleaned tonight and I can put the trailer back together with the car because tomorrow if it rains , it's going to be cotton! You want to put on a helmet!!!!! so here I am all on the ground if you follow the videos you know every time I paid out anywhere I found myself at some point more or less deep on the mother Stone.
Well that's the case here, I broke everything with a jackhammer to get some depth, I worked hard, you can clearly see the slightly sandy color of the stone from here, by the way. , which has a ferruginous sandstone "alcohol no! but ferruginous water yes!" we can see well here, I rowed well to dig something and when I arrived next to the house I am next to the stone wall, so inevitably I have backfill, so here it is soil that is clean and easy to remove. So I didn't want to give you two hours on a foundation trench . What we're going to do is I'm just going to show you a little tractor wheelbarrow corridor, it's going to show you a little bit of the consideration of the bank evacuation strategy I'll take you! A few moments later there is rock! I already managed to make a first trench but I wasn't wide enough, I was at 35 cm which is the width of my scrap metal so I widened my excavation again by 10 cm and there I am just in the rock…
Just in the rock… just in the rock the night falls I give up, come on… we do the little rush together my cuddly toy? are you filming I'm not gonna let go, we're cutting and I'll show you, even at the end of the night but we're not gonna do it for two hours either, you're gonna cut me Gigiss I've been waning… drooling… drooling 🥵 rock, rock, rock, rock, I'm on rock everywhere! except for about 2 m, here where it was earth fill. otherwise, from there it was pebble it was a horror 😱 absolutely absolutely …
Absolutely here there is not even a foundation we see that it is built on the rock right here here so there is a foundation 50 deep that a terrace! it should not catch fire there are 45 to 48 wide and it will go very well that way. I'm going to put the equipment away, and we're going to take a day off, we're going to put in the scrap metal and then pour the foundation. Reinforcement ….. this is where I should have studied my business better ….. so, I already planted concrete tor of 10 in the ground to define my level of finished foundation. I took at the peak: 30 cm high point here: I came to put a concrete Tor at 30 cm I took the level with this one: with a ruler and a large level this one I have the level with this one taken, I leveled from this one to that one, and point by point I went around to get a visual for my foundation level.
To know: from here to there I had to pre-drill because I was in the rock and could not sink my rebars. The foundation which is 50 cm wide and which will be 30 cm, a little more level, in height. To do this, I have stringers I think they are called stringers, 15×35 foundation scrap , about 15 cm about 35 cm like that and it's wire of 7 I remind you that it's a terrace, I'm not going to build three floors on it like that i'm going to do corner repairs, plus an interim repair, but there's no question of building a roof on top, so here we're really in the hard mode : foundation / terrace.
I'm going to wedge with stones that I'm going to put under, no cinder block because it tends to increase the humidity but I'm going to wedge with stones to raise my waste so that it is raised by at least 5 cm the bottom of the excavation. So when I vibrate my concrete it will cover the sides well, the bottom etc… so what I did I lifted it here with a rock and I made four pins that's wire of 7, it's the same diameter than that of the foundation and I will place pegs at right angles for the outer part: 150 pegs that I bent at 60 and 90 in length and for the inner parts c It's 50 and 50 and I'm going to fasten them with special little bit wires.
Warning: the layout of my pins does not comply, it does not take into account the principle of "vacuum thrust" explanatory links in description. so there are six pegs per corner so finally I put one back under in addition to the 2 meter long one that is there. I've wedged things with stones, the scrap metal is no longer lying on the ground, it's about 7 cm from the top of the foundation, about 7 cm low at least, that's very good. Now I will take care of the stiffeners, I will put vertical pieces at the 4 corners and half way for the long length as I have 5 m here, so I prefer to put one half way to make the whole thing really stiff. I have already prepared them: they are triangular chains since my corner blocks, my corner blocks, are designed for triangle chain, it is not 4-wire chain, it is 3-wire. the triangular chains are 1m50 high, plus a fold back of 50 to 55 cm, which will be taken up on the foundations.
Here is a beautiful mess in there huh! okay, that's it, the vertical stiffeners are in place and well, I'm going to stop, I'm going to have some coffee, I'm going to finish "grinding", tidying up, adjusting, preparing for tomorrow, and tomorrow, together with my sons, we will be able to lay the foundations. I estimated 2.5m3 to 3m3 of concrete at the concrete mixer, because we like to be dirty, that's it. We are pouring …… we are going to start pouring the foundations, it is 8 hours I did last night, I forgot to tell you, some formwork quickly well done, so before backfilling ( as soon as I finish ), I made a little wrapper to say not to puke everywhere. the whole team is on deck: we have our big mixing bags we have the first shot of cement there so we are going to put 3 buckets of concrete mix for a bucket of cement and water and … the whole team is ready are you all ready ? o [ __ ] Joris is ready do n't be grumpy! look at me, oh the bougounoux! Okay, let's go! the day is going to be long I hired my woodcutter because my vibrator gave the spirit after more than 10 years of good and loyal service, and a few tens or even hundreds of m2 of vibrated slabs he adapted an old drill, it vibrates' a little less good, but it does the job so i made it a little liquid so it goes down well…
Well as it should be, that's it. it's a vibrator that I bought, it's something for no money, at 100 dollars, and honestly it did a phenomenal job for the price I paid for it, it's relatively amortized, but there, this suddenly we asked too much of him, and then I dropped him earlier, there it is too, and I think he didn't like the fall either 😅 Don't be fooled in the small formwork, it's just to keep the level it's there You'll see we're going to miss half of it. a bucket! the noise bothers you dad huh! hee hee hee Come on Jo… stop, pose 😂 It wasn't enough for him, the cement mixer all day After he'll say, Yeah why did you put me in the video? Ben, because you are goguelin! Well listen to me! what do you want me to do for your child i think that there we are not bad we are not bad we are not going to do any more it will be fixed anyway with the mortar come on we are pissed hop there hey you the Lopez of 68 there! I'm looking for a family oh you're their father ha ha ha…
but I'm sitting I don't care I don't care my stupid face they know it Oh there's the fuss that helped us a lot today today she finished our sandwiches, everything, everything is going well here, the day is over, we're going to clean up, I'll give you a little visual very quickly, very quickly, a little more than 8 hours of work, so my little family at the cement mixer and me do the good job huh! so there is 2.5m3 of mix and there are 30 bags of cement. I'm going to let the foundations dry for at least a week I'm going to leave them nanar alone before I start building the first row, I have other things to do so I'm leaving them. So we'll get together to build the breeze blocks and bricks before we can lay the beams, the slabs, and then make the slab the slab as a whole, that's it..
