Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Walls and Foundation | Tags: cement, chronicle, concrete, construction, development, foundation, home, house, Noe Valley, project, Project Noe, real estate, rebar, reinforced concrete, renovation, San Francisco, shotcrete, wall | No Comments »
The pictures below show the foundation about three-fourths of the way complete. The crew is pictured using the shotcrete method to construct one of the walls of what will be the media room, which is located above the garage level. Requiring nearly 30 cement trucks carrying 9 yards of concrete each to complete, the new foundation is nearly ready for the framing of the house to begin.
Posted: June 11th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Walls and Foundation | Tags: April, concrete, construction, foundation, home, house, Noe Valley, project, Project Noe, real estate, rebar, reinforced concrete, renovation, San Francisco, shotcrete | No Comments »
With the excavation of the site complete, the difficult process of building the foundation begins at the rear of the property. In total, about 260 yards of concrete were poured, reinforced by a tied rebar beam cage. The varying grade elevations add to the difficulty, requiring one of our retaining walls to stand nearly 20 feet tall. This wall, like most others for this project, were constructed using a method called shotcrete, a process that involves spraying the concrete under pressure and smoothing the walls by hand.
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