Disassembling cellar forms
Tearing down the forms goes infinitely faster than the time it took to build them. It goes so fast, and we’re so busy, that no one stops to capture photos. Results speak for themselves and we heave a massive sigh of relief. It worked!
We clean and stack each of the sheets of plywood, and pull the pins, brackets, and nails. All of the 2x4s are sorted and moved to the growing board piles in the rear yard. A few patches are made here and there. The concrete friend stops by and once out of earshot of the builder tells me, “I’ve seen a lot of one-sided pour projects like this over the years and very few of them turn out looking this nice.” Kudos for our builder, and his helpers.
A few days go by before we get the four-yard concrete order for the floor delivered. We used one of the planks to hang the builder’s extension chute which marries up nicely with the truck’s chute. Compared to pouring the forms, it’s a walk in the park getting the floor filled. The builder used a laser to mark the level, one inch higher on the street side than the rear, so there would be a slope. We leave everything alone for more than a week so the concrete has plenty of time to set.
