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Originally Posted by tubeydude  Awesome thread. I've been watching since it started. It's going to be beautiful. One question though: (probably silly too)
Why did you pour the slab first in the main building and not in the annex?
I'm sure there is some good reason. Just curious.
Looks great. Many thanks for taking the time to document your project too! |
You ask a non-silly question that I'm happy to answer. It's all about protecting finished surfaces. In the main bldg we have wood floors throughout, so the concrete slab need no be protected. That gave us a much better work surface from which to raise our 24' tall walls.
In the annex we're going to have colored concrete as our finished surface, and we didn't want to damage it as we raised up our walls. Plus, that concrete wants to be protected during a long cure, which we can easily do now that we have a roof.
So it's all about picking priorities and sequencing to give the best result to each component. Not unlike arranging a song so that it mixes itself.