Ground floor detail

The walls rising on the ground floor bring to it a number of details that have to be resolved as we construct.  There seem to be number of issues cropping up here, mostly as a result of changes and one that has been deferred until now.

• First off, we moved the kitchen wall out by a foot.  Sounds small, but what we all forgot is that there was a steel beam in the basement roof below that was waiting to carry that wall, and more importantly the weight of the hollow-core slabs on top of it.  We moved it as we're worried the kitchen would be smaller than we'd hoped.  Similarly, the front wall of the living room moved out 450mm or so to ensure it was sitting on the wall underneath it.  The incremental cost here is a new steel beam in the underside.
• We've decided to add another half block of ICF on the wall level of the ground floor - with the step in the kitchen the ceiling height there would have been affected, so to maintain a reasonable height there we need to up the size of the wall a little.  More cost of material to do so.
• The living room features windows that wrap around the corners, nice but something needs to carry the weight of the wall above and in particular the stone on that wall.  This requires steel box sections to carry these, with .  Up till now it's been left, but now the engineer has spec'ed it our builder is a little skittish about the fabrication of the piece.

With all that, timeline for the next bit are to pour these walls towards the end of this week, complete the internal blocks next week and lie the hollow-core slabs by the end of next week.  If we miss the last deadline, we'll have an issue as we'll be waiting 2 weeks while the floor slab company are on holidays.  If we make it, it's likely we'll get all the walls completed by mid-august and look at starting on the roof.