Building Larry's "Desert House" -- 11

The next major job was finishing the "Flatwork".  This means pouring the main living room floor slab.  If I had it to do over I would have poured all the slab sections at once.  I forget why we didn't do that, but we had some reason.
 

As you can see, we've done more roof framing.  Also, note the passageway in the far living room wall.  Lots of steel rebar ties this together.

The slab ready to pour.  Note "screedboards" and wire mesh.

The vertical steel in the foreground was for the garage buttress wall.

Our special living room wall sure looks nice!
 
Larry Kraus and Hal Newell on pour day.

Hal would help Larry & I when we needed another strong back and another pair of hands.

We had two full-sized concrete trucks, I forget how many yards we poured.

It was a lot of hard work.  I always hated flatwork when I was building, and I used to sub it out whenever I could.

No such luck here.
 
The slab finished.

Note the "Buttress wall" footings on the left and the pier block for an 8x8 post.  These were structural elements of the garage walls.

Note also the hardware for securing 8x8 posts for the mostly-glass main front wall of the living room.

Next we'd build another full-sized, full-height wall with an important highly-visible face.  This wall would rise where the vertical steel sticks up on the near side of the slab.
 
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