Greetings, friends!

My story about a big dream is to become a beekeeper, inseparable from building a house.

And beekeeping, and building a house, for me, is a new experience, which gave me some confidence in my abilities and a lot of useful information.

As in the case of the apiary, when you need to make a lot of different choices, choose a hive, choose a breed of bees and, still, a lot of things, so, and when I started building, I had to make a choice, make a lot of decisions that couldn’t be change in consequence.

There were many options how to build a house, how to build a foundation. Cheap and expensive.

Reliability and cheapness were always on the scales.

In our country, high seismic activity, based on this, we decided to build a house on a solid foundation.

When, the project of the house was in my hands, I chose the construction team and got to work.

I was personally involved in the supply of materials.

there was no foreman, I had to make all the decisions myself.

But, I immediately registered the construction in the department of architecture and technical supervision.

Periodically, the inspector came and monitored the progress of construction, in stages.

So, the pit was dug.

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 did everything according to the norms of construction. The depth of the trench is 1200 millimeters and its width is 1000 millimeters.

Before pouring a reinforced concrete base, it was necessary to make a sand cushion 1000x150 millimeters.

For this, it took me more than 12 cubic meters of sand.

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Then, from a pine board 150x2.5mm, a frame for pouring concrete was shot down.

The cost of many works, it was difficult to predict, initially, even such a trifle as falling asleep a bag and level it, is not cheap.

But, I saw, ahead, my goal, and moved on.

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Most of all, I was worried about the accuracy of the layout and the geometry of the future building.

For me, each completed construction phase was a holiday!

The preparation stage for the sandy base is completed, to be continued!

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Author @barski
Ukraine

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