My new garage.

[SnowDrift]

If I had to guess, I would estimate about everything is more difficult where you are except for getting cooled off.

Between you and Les, the two of you probably have more grit that half the guys on the forum combined.

 

[denata]

I walled up the reinforcement in the armored belt, 3/8 seemed thin to me, I used 1/2 steel reinforcement. Ffirst filling the groove with concrete mortar, then sinking the reinforcement into it.

 

[Will L.]

Here the rebar (reenforcement bar) would be rigged into it’s location and pour the concrete around it. By cutting the concrete, adding it, then pouring over, the rigidity isn’t as strong because it ow relies on the adhesion of the two.

 

[denata]

With monolithic concrete, this is how reinforcement is made - and then. concrete. Here, the finished masonry of cellular concrete blocks is reinforced. Without armored belts, lower and upper, it can crack, Therefore, according to the technology of laying walls from cellular blocks, it is necessary to make armoreds in the first row, in a row at the level of window sills, and in the upper row.

 

[denata]

I lay the second row of blocks, not on cement mortar, but on polyurethane foam adhesive.
The blocks are easily cut with a saw with carbide teeth.

 

[jrsavoie]

What happens with the cracks?

Something to keep the foam from deteriorating or bugs from eating it?

Years ago I got a high density foam with bug killer mixed in.

 

[denata]

The seam between the blocks is very thin, about a millimeter, the seams will be plastered later, I have never heard about insects in masonry seams.

 

[jrsavoie]

The seam between the blocks is very thin, about a millimeter, the seams will be plastered later, I have never heard about insects in masonry seams.

Insects will sometimes eat the foam.

 

[jrsavoie]

https://www.google.com/search?q=bugs+in+high+density+spray+foam&client=ms-android-verizon-us-rvc3&sca_esv=d85e72e6e65eadf5&sxsrf=AE3TifOzWoB-4eSzAX6OiFjanwEec1Z71A%3A1751154112856&ei=wH1gaLCJNNu_p84PrOzc0Qs&oq=bugs+in+high+density+spray+foam&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIh9idWdzIGluIGhpZ2ggZGVuc2l0eSBzcHJheSBmb2FtMgQQIxgnMggQIRigARjDBDIIECEYoAEYwwRInStQvBhYgRtwAXgBkAEAmAGVAaABlgKqAQMwLjK4AQPIAQD4AQGYAgOgAqgCwgIKEAAYsAMY1gQYR8ICBxAjGLACGCfCAgUQABjvBcICCBAAGKIEGIkFmAMAiAYBkAYIkgcDMS4yoAfpCrIHAzAuMrgHoQLCBwMyLTPIBw8&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp

 

[denata]

Perhaps you mean spray insulation or expanding foam. I do not use them. This is a special foam adhesive for cellular blocks, this adhesive does not have secondary expansion, it is for thin-joint block laying. I took a macro photo, the seam thickness is tenths of a millimeter. It is impossible to push a blade through there, not to mention ants.

 

[ak diesel driver]

What is the materials those blocks are made of. Obviously not the typical masonry we're used to.

 

[MrMarty51]

What is the materials those blocks are made of. Obviously not the typical masonry we're used to.

Some kind of dense foam ? ? ? ?
He cut them with a carbide tipped hand saw of sorts.

 

[denata]

This is cellular concrete. The density in a dry state is 600-800 kg / cubic meter. i.e. it does not sink in water. Thermal conductivity is like that of a wooden beam. It is made in large forms, then sawn into the required dimensions. It is made from sand and cement. Make a very liquid solution of sand and cement 1: 1, mix, add a small amount of aluminum powder and caustic soda. Mix for a couple of minutes, and pour into the form. Aluminum actively interacts with cement and caustic, hydrogen begins to actively evolve, as a result, the solution rises like yeast dough. Increases in volume and decreases in density. After some time, the hydrogen stops being released and the raised dough hardens.

 

[denata]

in the USA it is known as Autoclaved aerated concrete, AAC.

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