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Welding the clits and the base plates

More. This is extreme heat welding at this point

We're currently waiting for the crane that will help raise these channels. Ordinarily we can manually raise those channels but not these ones. They're huge.

Crane is expected tomorrow

Channels raised today

How much was done today being Sunday

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This job has been completed and painting is expected to start tomorrow morning.

Pictures will be available then

Happy Eid Mubarak

michlins:
This job has been completed and painting is expected to start tomorrow morning.

Pictures will be available then

here are the photos

Just finished the construction of an 18ft tank stand.

The complete job

michlins:
The complete job

I'm guessing this is meant to hold two tanks at the top right?

Noah13:
I'm guessing this is meant to hold two tanks at the top right?

one tank at the top and another one below. It is a village home for the client and he doesn't need much water

Oga Topsy brought me to his site here in Nnewi to construct a tank stand. We're currently moving materials to site today and work will start properly tomorrow

Started digging the column and trenches for the tank stand foundation

This site is the toughest I have worked since I became a welder.


The land is so difficult to work with. You dig the trenches and while you're at it, it collapses. We have done it two times and about to do the third round starting this morning.

Pictures don't do it justice but unfortunately you can't upload videos here

I want to attempt a different approach to this. We will adopt the a different style to get it to work.

First of all, we pack all surrounding sands very far from the location of the tank stand. Then we dig it again but this time,we will protect the surrounding environment with marine boards so that even if the walls collapse again, the marine boards will protect the very space we're working on.

That's one part of the method that I am attempting. Further information will be passed down as we continue working so as not to make this a very long read.

Meanwhile, I have procured sand, chippings, rods and cement for the foundation works

We formed the blinding for the foundation today. Rain tried but our perseverance prevailed

We started pouring the concrete

After the dpc, we formed the board around the foundation area

Right before this,we already used 16mm rods to form the foundation for the tank stand

That 16mm rod is about 3ft tall and we used 12mm as ring around it. The reason for the height is because the foundation depth is around 10ft so we intend to raise it from such depth and at least get to 3ft above the compound floor.

So anytime they decide to floor their compound,it wouldn't be much of a problem

We started casting the foundation yesterday

This is how we ended it yesterday. Today,we continue the casting

Still casting the base

Started forming the wall for the pillars today

The boards

We connected the pillars with some sort of a lintel at the middle. This should connect and make the structure become "more one"

By tomorrow, I expect that we should start casting the remaining part of the foundation

Started casting the remaining part of the foundation yesterday. I expect to finish the casting today

Finished with the casting today. We will give it a day to cure before raising the channels

How we casted the beams

Money was literally spent on this base. It wasn't a walk into the park at all