{"id":1568,"date":"2021-09-12T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:36:54","slug":"heat-pump-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/heat-pump-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Heat-pump Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend I poured a pad for the heat-pump’s outside unit to sit on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used sand left-over from filling the electrical trench a couple years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First I built a form out of 2x4s and iron stakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is 100% more rebar than needed for this pad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I added rebar, set on high-chairs. This was overkill, but we do have extreme winters and I really don’t want it to break apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We used four 80 lb. bags of concrete to fill the 36 in. x 36 in. x 3.5 in. slab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We mixed each bag by hand in a wheelbarrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Given this was my first time finishing concrete, it came out very well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I had to work out a lot of air bubbles, but was able to get it to settle and finish smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It started raining about eight hours after pouring, but thankfully the top had firmed up enough by then.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I let it cure for a couple of days before removing the forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I may add more gravel later on, as this was the bare minimum to grade away from the sides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I backfilled the sides with the displaced gravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The stand is secured using concrete anchors, ensuring the stand will stay put.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The stand fit great and bolted down very securely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thankfully this location isn’t visible from the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend I poured a pad for the heat-pump’s outside unit to sit on. First I built a form out of 2x4s and iron stakes. Then I added rebar, set on high-chairs. This was overkill, but we do have extreme winters and I really don’t want it to break apart. We mixed each bag by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studio.parscal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}