HOUSE BUILDING IN THE PHILIPPINES - EPISODE 29: USING FORM CASING TO THE COLUMN 

as for the Honeycomb. Make sure that the Concrete Cover is enough for the aggregates to fit. usually 3/4" should be the maximum size for gravel. so cover must be altleast 30mm

Nice work 👍

Keep the colums wet for 4 days to let the concrete hardening on his best. Good job mate

Hey there, Just a few points about septic tanks. The water level should be 5cm below the bottom of the inlet pipe. The bottom of the lid needs to be a minimum of 9 inches above the water level. The gray water goes into the second chamber because it contains soap , drain cleaner, and other things that could kill the bacteria in the digester. This is also the same height as the black water inlet to chamber 1. The transfer point needs to be at 1/2 the water depth because sand and metal contaminants sink to the bottom and your little gifts are floating in the top couple inches. If the transfer port is at the top or bottom then undigested stuff goes into the second chamber. I use a transfer port into a third chamber that is basically a holding tank for water to use on landscaping the outlet from the third chamber sets the water level in all three chambers. this outlet or overflow is connected to the leaching field or in the PH the gravel layer under the septic tank floor. With two chamber systems you can eliminate the holding tank chamber if you don't water landscaping and put a six inch PVC pipe vertically cemented through a solid chamber 2 floor. The top of the pipe is cut to set the water depth on both chambers. The 9 inches above the water level is for air exchange in the digester and needs a vent pipe in and an above water level port to chamber two is the air exchange exhaust. These two air pipes need to end at as different height as you can make them for thermal siphoning to circulate the air. The exhaust stack is the tallest. My intuition is that your very deep tank will have significant hydrostatic head to force the overflow into the ground. I have never tested this because I use larger surface areas for oxygen exchange benefits which makes for a shallower tank. If you are doing split aircon the evaporator will work on the back wall but exhausting condenser heat between you and your neighbor will not make him a happy camper. You could put the condenser and compressor well above his roof for heat and noise supression and it would still be out of sight, but harder on maintenance. Possibly a platform with a steel ladder up to the compressor and also as a fire escape for the second floor. I hold the vibrator head flat against the outside of the form for surface finish and down inside to get contact with the rebar. Seems to work that way but there are a lot of variables. george and aurora

Lack of vibration on where you showed those anomalies on the concrete. Tell them to go up and down on the vibration instead of angling it.

Trouble is you can’t have the concrete to wet. Otherwise it’s to weak. You know when it’s just right when you do the slump test. Still looking good 👍👍👍

Another great video! Thanks

long time no see

Looks good column blowouts sometimes happens but they will figure it out on a fix , in construction there's always plan changes as you go along best to try and keep them minimal when possible 👍🏼

Hello. Trying to find your earlier episode, digging the footings. How deep did you put your columns and tie beams?

I didn’t do my columns like that. I thought it would be better to do the block work between the cages. Then shutter around the columns afterwards and pour the concrete. This way the concrete ties in every course of block. It’s coming along anyway 👍👍👍👍

It seems that the norm of having to re-do work in the PI, has not changed at all. The usual answer from the engineer or forman, was always the same. Minimal. Or "good enough". Hopefully, your project turns out well.

Tie bars added to columns as they are built is GOOD PRACTICE. See the HANDBOOK ON GOOD BUILDING PRACTICE IN THE PHILIPPINES.

sub-standard building from bottom to top

Yan ang tamang paggawa ng hz , una mga poste muna, malinis at matibay...kaya lang magastos lang talaga...magaling yong nakuha nio contractor , hindi bara bara ang gawa....

i did not see any hole or pipe that will connect the 2 chambers of the septic tank..

Make deal with reduce contract because of wrong colom

Coloum box buckle cause by vibrator staying in one location for too long...Rookie mistake..Another pilipino practice that needs to improve are.... too short lapping length of wall dowels...and too few wall dowels...

Horizontal splice from column is short. Hello falling wall.

That is not the correctbway of chb wall dowels? Unacceptable in rebar to be rebend the rebar and it does not meet the dowel splice length. There is no floor slab for the septic tank. Where are the electrical conduit. Is there any electrical plans. Get a clamp, and clamped it down. To fix the blow out form..

That happened to me with one of the columns. It was so annoying. Are you a southerner ? You sound as you’re from the south. Texas way

You do not keep the vibrator in the column how to vibrate a column is down to the bottom and up slowly and that's it if you are over vibrate you put all the gravel to the bottom

Keep it up buddy .

It wasn’t the mix... vibration, that’s what you need.

Not satisfying to me.