Adobe house renovation – Rear room wall replacement

As we have become accustomed to, all walls had something wrong ...

The back room, unlike the others, was not 60-70cm, but only 30-40cm. This is the size of 2 rows of bricks.

Above the window and at the beams, there were quite obvious cracks ...

Unfortunately, this one also needs to be replaced because it is a time bomb. It may crack at any time (also cracked in the last 1 year).

From the outside, the crack is visible above the window
(there were also 2 brutal concrete bridges for extra weight).

You can see it better from the inside.

Another wall demolition ... It was a pity because it would have been nice to have more clay walls.

Here you can see it is too thin for the main wall. It also contained some burnt bricks below.

Too bad the rest are not made of ...

The continuation of the wall is in the kitchen, where the upper bridgehead is supported on the adobe wall ...

with wooden wedges ... Of course its edge has fallen ....

It was also demolished after roof support ...

This part of the wall had at least normal thickness, which was not an advantage in terms of debris.

The roof is backed by struts again ...

It was covered with OSB tiles from the street to prevent the house from being wide open.

Conventional reinforcing, but now with a little more iron (was plenty).

At the workshop base, the reinforcing bars were directly overhanged to provide continuity.

The formwork is made of 8cm polystyrene foam, 5 layer pipe and polystyrene anchor.

With a little earth, his edge was still supported. Here will be another support for the kitchen bypasser.

A staircase was installed here because the workshop is 2 stairs higher.

The concrete level has been set.

The opening was barricaded.

The polystyrene has been cut off,

the concrete was lubricated with bitumen after 3 weeks of setting.

It shines like the "cricket valley" :).

Meanwhile, a formwork was made for the special new bypass. They are 2.5m wide.

Below, 3-3 fibers of reinforcing steel,

on top of 1 piece. (There is tensile stress at the bottom, so it must be stronger).

One more 1: 3 concrete mix and then vibrated with the drill

the whole bubble-free. He was forced to eccentric with a bent concrete reinforcement :).

At the top, the adobe bricks adhering to the concrete slab were torn down and then melted the tar paper.

Nicely overlapping where It's needed to.

Okay, she's not so pretty, but she does.

Next is the masonry: