Adobe house renovation – Kitchen passage walling

As the kitchen passage was cemented to the small room and the concrete was solidified for 2-3 days, I started to continue repairing the wall and building the bottom of the vaulted gateway.

As a first step, I selected the useful bricks from the scrap pieces at the end of the plot, which I also fired.

The red hole bricks (officially known as pillars) will be good for the arch.

For the side walls, as I cut them up to the top, they do not match because the concrete pours out on the holes.

There are still usable bricks, we only have to search ...

They all lay in the garden:

The reds are in good shape after being fired.

Masonry can come:

The wall made of bricks serves as a formwork and an exterior decoration element.

Behind it will be poured with concrete, of course well-fed.

The jumper over the opening is totally devastating, since the jaw has been fed up with it several times ...

So maybe it looks even better:

The two wickets are not too comforting for the adornment wall ...

So there will be a well-baked brick-based concrete.

- Back to the wall:

Here are some new bricks on the bottom, because the bottom should be perfect.

When the water level is well suited to the bricks, it is also easier to work with bricks of inaccurate size.

Large bricks should be carved enough to make the height measurements.

At the meeting point of the wall there was a small gap.

All the tools were just a masonry spoon and a water meter.

Of course I was still dark again ...

The large brick is more advanced but at the same time it requires a lot more mortar because it is inaccurate almost every size.

After this, concreting and ironing will continue, followed by new bricks.

The width of the gateway has dropped to 105cm, which corresponds to an average door.

The jumper is 260cm high, so there must be an end to the arch.

The height of the brick at the arch is 12.5 cm, the door width is 105 cm,

(105/2) = 195cm high (a standard 100x200 door would fit).

Two days later, when the mortar was firmly bound, the concrete was started:

The left part had a little more than 2 spatulas of concrete.

I painted the concrete with a well-honed earthen block in the wheelbarrow to fill the space.

Concrete lathes for the continuation were also replaced.

The bars on the right are also set. They are 2m long, so they almost reach the ceiling.

Here you can see that approx. With half the concrete when the iron was placed.

Need to overlap, it did not even matter ...

Concrete is now made with the well-proven 1: 4 cement grader ratio.

Its consistency is very important. It's almost ground-based concrete.

If it contained more water, it would be much weaker after solidification.

If it does not dissipate itself (as in the picture), it's okay.

There is a little more work on the insertion process, but it should be compressed, so this is not really a plus.

I always put the cement in a mortar box, because it is easier to get out of here.

I will not let you run out, but I always pour it down, so you do not have to struggle with the removal of the residue.

Both pages are full. But the rest is always where to go :).

For example, under a bath where concrete was left out of the waste water pipe to make the bathtub easy to bind.

Hole filled:

Gaps filled and stuffed.

The next day after the concrete was solidified, the masonry continued:

However, the bricks have become obscure...

So there was a new purchasing tour on the thickest part of the garden, in the amber-covered forest of debris shells:

Then work continued in the house.

A little further (the plastic buckets are beginning to grow).

In one bucket I soak the bricks, the other is the mortar, the third is pure water for mortar mixing.

The fourth is just for the sake of "mess" :).

This is the rest of the bricks ... They're pretty irregular and there is not anybody else, so I have to buy new ones.

They can be at least nice and fast with them.

Between broken bricks, many injured and even several pieces were twisted ... (long ago there was no ISO rating)

Now the height of the wall is 140cm. There are 3-4 rows and the arch may come.

As all the bricks went out, I had to bring new ones:

In the trunk, surprisingly, 68 pcs.

I threw them into the house with a stick.

After two days of binding, a further concretion was made:

Due to broken bricks, the wall is not as beautiful as it was in the beginning, but the target is right.

After compression, lowered the top.

As it was clear, I put two more lines in the new brick:

A little further away:

The joints beside the stairs have been cemented even if the concrete mixer has been mixed.

There was also a pit below where it was difficult to remove the leaves.

The formwork had some cement sheets and bricks and a little nikecell...

This will make it easier to clean it if the leaves fall off.

The steel mesh is prepared for the support wall to continue, "only" to be molded and concreted.

At 6 o'clock in the evening I went to one of my dear acquaintances because she offered 65 pillar bricks, which was just on her way.

I have to get some more than $ 75 for the arch, and I've got some 24 out of the box, so that's it.

The car also sat down normally (about 250kg in the trunk).

At shunting, it was a bit of a drawbar at the crawler.

All they had to do was take them up and take them a little bit:

In the evening I finished 8th. Finally, after 3 pm, it is not a bad time for concreting,

Masonry staircases and brick purchases :).

My parents helped me today, so the ground and scrapers in the way disappeared from the road.

Special thanks to them. There was a long time in the middle of the house :).

The height of the pillar has justified itself to be tied to the wall.

To do this, I hit 1m concrete bars in the wall, which I missed in the groove.

When he went down a little and had enough space, I helped him with a 5 kg hammer because the wall was quite solid...

Fully typed:

The other side:

After 5-10 minutes, this was also replaced.

Then I fixed it with tile adhesive:

The iron has been raised to undertake too much.

The next day, two more bricks were put up:

Still life:

The bricks are divided here:

Concrete (prior to watering):

The next day, four acquaintances helped get the door out of the house because it was difficult enough and on the road ...

The setting of the pedestal was a great challenge because of the threading of the threaded stems

The stones in the concrete pushed a little ...

From the front (here only the bearings hold the gate in all directions):

Here the water level is already set:

The following is the archive template creation:

Since the OBI has been cut off for technical reasons, the panel is cut off from OSB.

I pulled the bow with a circle made of earthenware and a pen with a drilled hole :).

In the middle there is a 6-screw, which is a pretty good benchmark.

The 2 OSB blades were screwed together to ensure that they were evenly cut when grinding.

Of course, it would have to break the decoiler saw during the cut-out ...

The axis of the large gear is slightly distracted.

So in a corner grinder (popularly flex) I cut and cut a circular saw blade.

The spacers are made of tiles.

102cm is the diameter of the circle and 69cm wide.

The arch is in principle 104cm, but the wall is pretty bad and even the plane of the two walls does not line up ...

Here, there were also 12 different tiles to have the bricks to rely on.

Of course, the hammer was found to scratch the screws.

The work being done:

The final result:

The rest of the pillars of the pillar have been cemented:

The optics could be a bit damp...

The remaining concrete is always in place (it can be seen the next day):

Current status:

2016.

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