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Post 20 made on Wednesday July 18, 2018 at 11:03
SB Smarthomes
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On July 18, 2018 at 06:15, thecapnredfish said...
Someone mentioned getting around mesh and rebar. Only outside forms go first. Then plumbing goes In as plumber puts in the pipes before rebar and mesh. Sealing ends of pipes. Plumbers cap it with PVC caps then cut them off. You are not doing anything different other than moving dust and hair instead of water and poop. Poured walls? I assume you need perfect placement. Perhaps you can build a small form around where your intake vents go to to keep cement out and give you some room to trim pipe. I’m not a vacuum guy, just going off what I see walking through houses. Crush won’t happen. The soil should be compacted. The cement does not compact the soil further, at least noticeable. Little bit down you dig will not pose an issue. Plumber does it everyday. Your vertical runs will not have weight on them anyways. If worried about under slab runs, put it in schedule 40 or use schedule 40.

I'm familiar with working in forms for footings and even poured walls, it's just the first time where the form and concrete are the finish surface.  In this case, it's usually the inside form that's being installed first because the electrical contractor and I need to set all our boxes to the back of the inside form which will become the interior wall surface.

Yes, the wall are poured so everything has to be set and fixed onto the forms within about 1/8" accuracy and there cant be any damage to the inside of the form surface (even pencil marks show up in the concrete).  Miss drilling a hole or scratching the form surface would require the concrete guys to replace the entire section of form board.

I think schedule 40 is the way to proceed and then use the central pipe adapters to reduce near the inlets. I'm still not quite sure how to pull off the inlets that are located in concrete walls.  Building any type of box around them would create an opening around the inlet too large for the inlet cover to conceal.  Might need to fab up some steel boxes.

The good thing is there are lots of pours scheduled and I have the time and budget to create mock-ups that can be test poured to see what happens.

I was just hoping that someone had already done this so I could draw from their experience.

Last edited by SB Smarthomes on July 18, 2018 11:22.
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