When it comes to materials, I'm going to use very large posts and beams cut from the California Red Fir (Abies magnifica). I'm also going to use the concrete tilt-up wall system for the back half of the building. Because concrete wall panels are usually detailed with simple reveals, I want to create a stamped concrete look on these panels! Here is how I want to do it:
1- pour and stamp the basement concrete slab.
2-Pour and stamp the first wall section on this slab using appropriate forms and methods
3-pour and stamp each subsequent wall section on top of the first untill all wall sections have cured and are ready to be lifted into place.
4-lift all walls into place
5-pour a second layer of concrete on basement floor to remove the original stamp.
Of course, this will only work if certain conditions are met. The stamp pattern used must look the same in positive and negative form (if you want the walls to all look the same). Walls must always have a stamped surface to be layed out on (if you want both sides to be stamped).
What do you think?
Can this stamped wall procedure work?
Has it been done before?
How about instead of stamping the negative form into the basement slab, you pour it flat like normal, and then put a rubber negative of the stamp on top, and then pour your walls on that.
ReplyDeleteHaving a very irregular cold joint near the surface of a basement slab seems like a very bad idea to me.
How about tilt up slabs... have you heard of them?
ReplyDeletegoogle tilt up slabs
I want to see how this would work... lots of re-bar!
ReplyDeletei agree with derek, you would just have to pour the basement first flat then lay your rubber negatives on top of the and pour your next slab on top of that and so fourth, it would take a ton of money to get that much negative rubber to do a whole wall though. most of the time the stampers use a 3'X 3' square and just stamp it ande then lift it off and do the next section. the other thing you could do is pour the slabs like before but instead of having the stamp on the bottom just do the traditional method on the top, let if cure, then place some type of flat membrane overtop to separate the new slab from the old one. Then do the same traditional stamping on all other walls following the same method.
ReplyDeletethis was dale btw.