The pour is scheduled for noon today and the crew showed up at 6 a.m. to finish the bracing, set the brackets for the framing, fix anything that needs to be fixed, and do a general clean-up. The big issue though is that we failed our inspection yesterday. The county says that the vertical rebar in the walls needs to be tied to the verticals coming out of the chain wall. We had the same question earlier in the week, but the contractor and the Joe the Nudura rep all said that they didn't. We went along with their decision, but in the meantime also tripled the number of verticals in the walls (that was Tuesday's crisis - the PE stamped drawings are worthless and had not specified the rebar, and with our large openings, none of the standard design tables are applicable).
Anyways, the building inspectors are meeting this morning to make a decision on tying the rebar. The only way to get to the rebar is to cut holes every 2' in the bottom of the walls, which then need to be patched. All the ICF documentation strongly recommends that the rebar be tied, but does not require it.
It's shaping up to be a long day!
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