Slab Concrete planned for this week

It's after a big interval, I'm posting in this. Our house-construction work has reached up to the ground floor main slab concrete planned for next week. Today I tried to free some place for unloading the crusher sand and metal in the plot, doing which I got bitten by a spider, and had to stop today's work. Besides, I'd to come to office.

The joinery - ground floor

All the joinery for the ground floor was made by Mr. Salim's carpenters [ Lulu furniture, Karukadam, Kothamangalam]. They were made of used[old] wood. Doesn't look as good as new ones, they say. But I feel it's enough. Many people say good opinion about it, though some are against it. This was the thing that delayed the work most. The joinery pieces were delivered more than a month later than when it was supposed to be delivered. Since I was insistent on the lintel to be made only after fixing the joinery, we had to pend the works for a few weeks. In between, the septic tank was constructed, though.

The walls

Laterate bricks[ vettukallu] was used for all the 20 cm walls. For 10 cm walls [interior- seperation between kitchen and work area, toilet and store room] we used cement bricks. For septic tank also 6 in cement bricks were used.Just above the joinery height, there's the lintel concrete, which varies in thickness with the nature of the joinery under, and the span etc, all according to Krishnakumar sir's drawing[ Associated Structural consultants, Kochi]. In some places it's 30 cm thick. In others, mostly 15cm. Over the lintel, 3-4 layers of bricks[20cm laterate bricks] were used, to reach the main slab level.

Foundation belt concrete

A belt concrete was done over the foundation rubble work, with 15 cm thickness and 30 cm[or 40 cm i don't remember exactly]. Some 30 bags of cement and about 1 tonne steel was purchased[exact amount of steel I don't remember. Will update later].