Preparing For The Crown

May 17, 2010

The crown is the final pouring of concrete before the roof is started, or the start of the second floor as is in this case.

Here, you see all the formed re-bar going across the top of the walls and all the arches and doorway openings. The purpose of the re-bar is to stabilize and reinforce the concrete after it is poured.

The curved wood forms you see here will make the arches between the columns,

This man is busy building the forms that will be used to enclose the re-rod. Once all the forms are in place, they will start pouring the concrete to make the crown. Once that is done, they will begin construction on the second floor.







Below, you see the man painting steel beams. These will be used to support the floor for the second story. The beams are set first, then corrugated galvanized metal will be placed on top of the beams - then they start pouring the floor.

Below, are some more pictures taken of the project on the same day.