Country Stone Manor Northbrook – Concrete Forms
Early days of construction on a Northbrook Country Stone Manor where we expect 1,000 people to contribute to the work. Having a look at the concrete formwork for the upcoming concrete pour.
See also – this video which covers excavation and concrete for the sister project next door.
Video Transcript
Hi, we’re here in Northbrook. My name is Tom Kenny at Scott Simpson Design and Build. We’re building two houses off of Voltz Road for two sisters that are going to be living next door to each other. This is the concrete formwork we’re putting together because we’re going to be pouring concrete on this site next Wednesday. That little piece of high tensile steel, when the concrete goes flowing in there, presses outside of the forms and wants to split them open. Well, this piece of steel holds them together. And then we use this Styrofoam to form ledges inside of the concrete. So when the concrete is poured, it forms around the actual Styrofoam and it acts like a joist ledge, which enables us to get the concrete high enough to keep the house from getting wet inside and low enough to keep only one or two steps going into the building.
Here is a string line that the guys are actually lining the building up with. Down below here is a tiny little nail head pin that the surveyors put in. They’ve leveled up the string, and they’ve strung the string all the way across there. And that’s how they square up the building. You’ll find one of these little pins at every corner of the building so the guys know where to put the house. The entire front is this kind of parking port, and there’s a garage on either side, sort of like a formal kind of entryway. This is actually one of the garages. You can see how the form work comes out, steps down, that’s where the garage door is. And so when they’re done pouring the floor, they will fill all this gravel in, and there’ll be a big concrete garage slab there. So we don’t need to dig out all that. Save us money. All the extra piled up dirt right there is for backfill. We’re going to save that until we’re trucking it off. We’ll actually use that. Once all the formwork is broken off and the concrete is actually cured, we’ll push it back into the hole and cover up the form. There’ll probably be over 1,000 people that will work on just this project.