A small house update:

4 of the horizontal beams have been installed and leveled. These beams will support the joists for the upper floors, so they are critical to get installed for framing to start. The bigger rear beams for the back deck are being galvanized, and should be ready for install in a few weeks.

We hope to have a pause in the weather the next few days, long enough for us to pour the lower floors. The concrete guys have setup the screed rails, which is not something I have personally seen before. I believe it makes it easier and faster for them to keep the top final surface level.

They have also installed these small steel dowel bars that go across the area they will cut after the pour. As I understand it they grease one side of the bars, and after the cut this allows the slab to move a little bit and prevent cracking elsewhere. I don’t recall seeing this in my current garage floor, although this is a larger floor with far more rebar.

Hopefully tomorrow we will pour two of the garage floors and the storage room, mechanical room, server room, and vault. This will leave one remaining garage floor for Friday.