Corbels Again

My DIY concrete vibrator seemed to work well - see previous post. As bonus, the corbels make good chin up bars ;) Nice and chunky - suits the garage.

Here is my very dodgy form work... I wet downed the concrete blocks before placing the concrete - it makes it stick better. The concrete was a fairly dry mix. It is amazing that the mix can go dry to wet in just a cup of water.

I accidently covered some of the screws with the chip board and had to do some cutting. Not for the faint hearted is an angle grider with a multi cutting blade...

Off comes the form work and now appears the green concrete. I used a wire brush to create a bit of texture...

Baked Cheese Cake

Base:
1 cup of Arnotts Scotch Finger or Nice biscuits
6 table spoons of melted butter
3 table spoons of sugar
Filling:
375g of cream cheese (softened)
2 eggs
1/2 cup (100g) sugar
1 table spoon of vanilla essence
1 cup of light sour cream

Bake at low temp for ~ 35 minutes.

Pork and Peanuts

3/4 pound of cubed pork
2 tablespoons of oil
1.5 table spoons of soya sauce
1.5 table spoons of brown sugar
3 oz of unsalted peanuts
2 carrots
1 small onion
2 green peppers

Fry up the sauces and oil in the wok as a reduction. The idea is that this will coat the meat and veggies.

Kids should love it.

Concrete Corbels

Here is my diy concrte vibrator... It seems to work well, tomorrow I will find out.

Concrete Corbel

I placed the concrete. Big, chunky and texture matches the wall...

I welded up some steel brackets for some shelves. The advantage is that they are perfectly level and each shelf has a theoretical working design load of 600kg per shelf (if you trust my welding). Anyway each bracket can support my weight on the tip.

Corbels for the Garage

Bent the steel with my reo-bender (that I bought for the steel re-inforcing for the house) and araldited them in using Sika anchor fix. I should have heated up the stuff in my heating cabinet to make it flow easier. The welding was just to hold the steel in place.

I used WD-40 to get the coach screws all the way in. Together with an impact driver, they made it all the way in - 200mm !

I put some (temporary) brackets in to support the concrete form. I used packers to level it up - :). I estimate it will need to support the setting of around 100kg of concrete. BTW, have no fear. The wall is a solid re-inforced concrete filled wall. One N16 rod mesh at 400mm squares.

Steel Supports

Lots of drilling today - 60 13mm holes in steel and 64 masonary holes. I'm getting ready to araldite steel reinforcementg into the wall. This particular one is 50mm closer to the posts than the others - hence the washers. I only have an auger bit that can drill 150mm and a box of 200mm coach screws.