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It was a 'C25/30' concrete. I have no idea if this is international code or just a german classification. Thank you for your kind words. Yes the one who has to demolish this in 150 years will find many unkind words for me using so much steel and concrete...:eyecrazy:

Yes they look like unistrut spacers, but they are made from recycled plastic. They are a bit flimsy and crude whilst handling, but as spacers for rebar they work great and are very cheap. Much easier then bending spacers from rebar. The holes are there to allow concrete to flow inside.

Update: In the meantime we layed the slab (25cm/10"), starting with the delivery of some rebar: First the plastic spacers underneath the first layer of Q335-rebar: On top of the first layer of rebar came "snake-rebar" as a spacer to the seconde layer of rebar: Final view at the end of day...

Hehe, the wood stack is more a cosmetic solution to hide the Container I use as a garden shed from the eyes of my wife: It's much more pleasant to the eye then the bare metal:

No aerated concrete blocks are something different. They have little "airpockets" to help insulation and reduce weight. The blocks I use are massive concrete. Heavy, badly insulating but very solid to withstand the underground pressure coming from the nearby house.

Yes that system is quiet similar. No wonder he knows this System, Mr. Haener says he studied in Berlin.... Here you can get these blocks in every hardware store.

The concrete blocks are about 3$ a piece. They are roughly 20 inches long and 10 inches high/wide. Costly compared to wood but very cheap compared to any other "underground pressure resistant building material". Yes the slow-mason is also one reason. But having afterwards a solid reinforced...

Thank you for your suggestion! These are always welcome! Those anchors are planed but I don't intend to include them in the slab. As the final layout is still a work in progress I don't want to interfere them with a Lift or something else. The plan is to drill holes after the tiles are layed and...

Here is a picture of the final retaining wall I build with these blocks bevor: As you can see, there is no mortar between the layers. Makes building really fast.

No, you just dry stack them up to five rows, place the rebar inside and fill everything with concrete. More then five rows in one filling is to much pressure from the wet concrete for the bottom blocks. The male/female fit holds them in place whilst filling with concrete. Only the first bottom...

Hello Forum, as said in the 'Introduction-Area' my name is Adrian and as the Topic suggests I'm from Germany (please excuse my lumpy english). After years of reading here in the Forum and dreaming of my own workshop, I stopped dreaming an took a shovel (or maybe it was an excavator shovel...)...

I grew up under the nose of the Blues and Royals, The Queen's Own Hussars, 4/7th Royal Dragoon Guards, so more of Chieftain and Challenger 1 Tanks. As life plays, I now live amongst the remains of the Headquarter of the "3. General Redbanner-Army (russian 3-я общевойсковая Краснознамённая...

As I know, lots of you have been through various parts of the country but I assume no one was near my location. Or maybe you were, but are still today not allowed to talk about it. I live north east of the Fulda Gap. So maybe it was only a point on your secret map...;)

I've too have a three-wheeled, 37 mph fast, petrol driven wheelchair for war invalids from east germany: As I've said: More the weirdo stuff....

Post no. 2 is about the purpose of my workshop. I work on exotic cars. Nooo, nothing from italy. More the crappy weirdo stuff from England.... Something even the british think it's ****: Reliant Rialto 2 GLS Estate Bond Bug That sort of stuff.