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Mix and Pour Concrete Core Fill

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Day 2: Emergency Foundation repair

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What happens here

Mix concrete to a wetter consistency than usual in a wheelbarrow. This wet mix allows the concrete to flow easily down into the hollow cores of the concrete blocks. Pour the wet concrete into the exposed block cores using buckets. This core-filling process adds significant strength and rigidity to the foundation wall, further stabilizing it against inward movement. After filling the cores, a rebar is inserted into each filled core to provide additional structural reinforcement.

Goal: Fill concrete block cores with wet concrete for reinforcement

Tools and materials

  • 5-Gallon Buckets Fleet Farm — Transporting and pouring concrete into block cores
  • Rebar — Reinforcing the concrete core-fill
  • Shovel — Mixing and scooping concrete
  • Trowel/Float — Smoothing the top surface of the core fill
  • Wheelbarrow Truper — Mixing concrete
  • Concrete Mix — Filling the hollow cores of the concrete blocks
  • Water — Mixing concrete

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there [Music] Frankie keeps the mud wetter than normal he needs it to work its way down and through the wall on its own so easy if they're a little pale there isn't much room to work and a full pail would spill all over defeating the purpose you can hear the concrete come out of the pail and work its way down through the wall you won't tell how many buckets you think it's gonna take too long estimated to bag for whole bus to bags yeah and that was the nuts to bag that I mixed well I could be wrong clever you take three I don't know so he mixes up another batch to see how much each hole will take yeah it's about two blocks maybe that maybe a little more and so he keeps going adding more concrete until he gets it to where he's satisfied pretty close after the wall is filled frankie drills a hole through the soap plate and then runs the rebar through the sill plate into the concrete wall below connecting everything together

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