We had a relatively productive weekend with glorious weather.  It’s really cool how much more the house is taking shape with each successive row of rebar. 

One challenge in attaching the rebar is that on the sloped retaining wall arches, the tabs don’t line up.  David Adamson stopped by with his mig welder to see if it would work to tack weld the ends of the rebar on the arches.  It worked perfectly and he is going to come back after we have all the rows up.

Meredith and Beckett came by on Sunday to lend a hand.   Beckett put his to good use testing the strength of vacuum in our shopvac.

By the end of the weekend we had 7 rows of  rebar up.  That doesn’t seem like a lot but there is a tremendous amount of bending and fiddling to get them in place so progress is slow.  Once we get to putting up the verticals, it should move along much quicker.

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