Welcome back to the hilltop project. In
this episode, the builders have poured their footings, and they are now ready to
start stacking the ICF block for their basement. Here's where the benefit of those
even interval height steps come. This piece, I can drop in. Lock it in, and I'm ready for the next piece, good to go. The hilltop house has a circular tower on the corner of the site.
To construct this, the builders use special BuildBlock radius block to
create the circular structure. As the blocks are being stacked, the builders
add in the horizontal rebar reinforcement as specified by their
engineering. After stacking all of the blocks for the basement walls, the family
then braces and installs scaffolding on the walls for the pour. The builders then
use the scaffolding to install the vertical rebar reinforcement. Here we are looking down the wall. Not sure
how well this camera flashlight will help you see, but see we've got the
vertical rebar running in between the two courses and the horizontal rebar
runs on the inside the outside overlapping or alternating every course. Alright so here's a long block that
I've cut horizontally, ripped it on the table saw, that works really well for
slicing this top layer to hold the BuildDeck Now I just like taking a sawzall,
cut the top web. Make sure you cut the web on the same side put your notch.
Don't waste blocks like I did. Now, in my case, my table saw blade is just not quite
tall enough to get these last few webs. I like to just clean it up with
some nippers. Now I didn't go all the way through the bottom web, I only cut off
just this top triangle right here, just enough to get it loose. You can still see
full thickness of the web right here attaching it, that's an important part. So,
in this house, the basement is going to be nine foot four, and then I'm going to
have an 8 inch BuildDeck poured on top of that. So, you can see I have seven full
courses of block stacked here, and then the eighth course, we've actually trimmed. So you look in with me here, you can see we cut this. We showed some video that
earlier, here we've cut this down to it's just four inches high right here,
and then the build deck is actually going to set right on top of this. If you
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