Kevin Kamau Muchai Building Technologist
Kevin Kamau Muchai Building Technologist

@kevinkamaumucha

50 Tweets 96 reads Oct 16, 2022
Thread ya vile kazi inaendelea.
1. Mass excavation.
2. Strip footing excavation.
3. Reinforcement for strip and column base.
Strip footing concreting.
5. Foundation walling.
6. Backfilling and compacting murram.
7. Hand packing hard-core before compacting again.
7.1 hand packing hard-core
8. Vumbi to fill voids
8.1 antitermite treatment.
8.2 DPM
9. Brc placing
9.1 spacer blocks placing.
9.2 level confirmation with Bosch dumpy level.
9.3 final inspection before concreting.
10.concreting ground floor slab with dumpy level in hand to achieve a level surface.
10.1 support to sunken lounge.
11. Setting out and ground floor walling.
12. Casted ground floor staircase before as slab formwork proceeds
13. Section of staircase will ease access to slab formwork and kupandisha chuma.
14. First floor Slab formwork...
15. First floor slab reinforcement. Beams placing staircase final 8 no risers.
15.1 slab reinforcements. Beams to start.
16. Concreting columns using column moulds that we fabricated specifically for this project, ground floor round columns are behind schedule.
17. Column moulds for first 2 columns removed as we complete staircase section walling and window opening setting out
18. Slab reinforcement placing.
18.1 spacer blocks topings......
18.2 As slab formwork is ongoing
Ndio hizi spacer blocks.
Easy to use
19. Slab reinforcement ongoing.
Spacer blocks baadae n plumbing na stima.
20. Reinforcements for slab done! Spacers placing ongoing.
20.1 Plumbing and drainage points placed.
20.2 Electrical points placed.
20.3 Staircase tread and risers check.
20.4 Final inspection ongoing.
This thread needs a retweet bana..
21. We concreted the round columns and did formwork for the balcony.
22. Plumbing qnd drainage inspection.
22.1 electrical conduits inspection
23. Concreting slab.
23.1 concreting final staircase flight
23.2 used 2 cranes to be able to complete concreting the slab as well as achieve the required concrete thickness.
24. first floor setting out and w
walling.
What we checking. Level wall location room sizes.
24. Walling ongoing. Mdogo mdogo too
24.1 walling and column formwork ongoing.
25. Walling complete.
25.1 column concreting.
25.2 staircase concreting
26.Striking off formwork for first floor slab.
26.1 note how smooth the slab is.
27. Formwork props removed.
Concreting 2nd floor slab......
28.1 balcony wall parapet wall done.
29. Staircase walling and window opening.
29.1 windows lintel concreting
29.2
Details are very important
30. Hacking of ceiling before rough cast.
30.1 staircase windows done.
Maji maji ongoing.
Hacking ongoing.
30.2 renders plus kwa ground.
31 ceiling plaster day 1.
NB:- we will be concreting staircase roof slab next week.
31.1 ceiling and wall.
31.2 wall plastering
31.3 Door level reduced to 2.4m high... before plastering.
32. Windows fabrication.
33 water pressure testing.
Doors fixing.
Column mould option 2.
We will be back stronger like we never left. Stay tuned.
31. Doors confirmation using laser machine
34. Plumbing second fix and pressure testing as plaster is ongoing.

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