Plywood till the eye can see..

We continued our placing of plywood today. We are out of material and tomorrow they are brining 40 more sheets. We already brought 20 sheets so that makes 60 sheets in all. This is equal to 480 feet (150m) or 1920 sq feet of material. We also went around to reinforce the corners as we are supposed to do (see pics below) and also where the material overlaps.

We had to purchase a ladder today since its going to be challenging to get into our wooden tank. However while writing this blog it downed on me we bought the wrong type. There are stairs only on one said and not both sides. We can walk up but not down on the other side... Oops...

The other thing we did was to tie off our 160 pieces of 60 inch rebar which will then be bent into the top slab. They are wired to every second dowel which means 12 inches.

Our next biggest challenge will be the waterstop. Because it rains here so much overnight this proves to be a challenge. Here is the situation. From the outside we will staple a plastic sheet all the way around the waterstop, thats easy. The problem is what falls on our slab. This will automatically tend to drain to the edges somewhere. Where of course our waterstop will be not covered by concrete yet. So it looks like our only option is to setup our square tent in the middle of the house and erect enough tarps and plastic so the water will be guided to the outside of the house so it doesn't collect on the inside slab. Once this is done, we can place our inside plywood sheets and get ready for our concrete pour.

Corners are reinforced as you can see here with an extra 2x4 and screws every 6 inches.

Tied off dowel to our 60 inch vertical rebar.