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layout with upside down marking paint

12-inch deep footing with # 4 rebar grid

Day 2 poured footing set first row of block in wet concrete footing

Day 3 Steel lintel at wood storage opening

My Helper Coral

Solid grouted all 8 inch block by hand with buckets, a legal aged helper and mixer

Counter top seating side

Used blue masonry type screws, predrilled with impact masonry drill and screwed into block.

Pine board attached to leveled 2x4 to create a little overhang

Rebar going in

Supporting the cantilever wth wood stakes for the pour

Hardie Backer form bridging blocks that will stay and # 4 rebar

Poured colored concrete with a short load from a concrete truck and the help of a pump

The cantilever held just fine and the stakes and forms will stay for a few days.

tooled joints to reduce cracking in concrete counter top

left up cantilever support 
eventually this entire counter top was wet polished

Close up of counter after wet polishing 
Sealed with Lacquer based sealer.

Insulation and level sand course

Oh I remember this day, problems with wet saw screwed up and started over a couple times March 5

Built brick arch, added fired clay chimney tube from sepulveda building materials

Wood and brick detail at wood storage # 2

Brown coat with basic plastic cement  and washed plaster sand

Cleaning up at end of day. Also all the way thru this time I have been misting everything including dome  to help water cure

back to work on the chimney
took all day just to do this much work  a little tricky starting brick on the cured part of the dome.

Chimney finished along with smooth troweled stucco

Alberto to the rescue! 
Needed some more help to do the stucco work

Good red stucco tape to keep plaster of counter top

Diamond lath with a few masonry anchors very carefully placed don

Plastered and headed home.