Wire, wire, wherefore art thou wire?

So after the compaction came the wiring. We placed our wire mesh in place, put the necessary supports under the lower and upper one. The lower will be 1 1/2 inch from the bottom of the rock and the top will be 6 inch from the rock, which means it will be 2 inch from the water because we will have 8 inch's of concrete on the slab. Its a little tricky walking on the wire mesh, however we have figured out a system with some 5/6 inch plywood pieces that we can place on and walk on that without much issue. By the time we got to the second set of wire mesh we had improved our technique. The foundation also requires #5 rebar all along the footing as well as a #3 rebar higher up in the footing as well. Quite a lot of steel. Also we are making sure when we place the rebar that they are continuous around the corners and not wired there by us. This should add extra strength to the corner I believe. Its quite exciting and challenging to figure out the bends in the 20 foot piece of rebar that they come in. Our rebar bending Hitachi tool has been essential for the work.

We use a handy wire tool which by pulling twists the wire saving a lot of time.

Footing rebar in place and wired.

6 inch rebar seat/chair

These are the 1 1/5 inch chairs.