I am busy building a garage. I understand that you should not build when the temperature is over 25° and especially not in the sun. I laid the first layer around the slab in the evening when it had cooled down and then covered it with a tarp for protection from the sun, which shines on it from early morning until 5-6 PM. Have I made a mistake or will it hold? I'm afraid the mortar cured too fast.
Then I'm wondering about good solutions for a counterfort.
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https://www.byggahus.se/forum/threads/suterraeng-garage-rad-och-foerslag.310293/#post-2977992
I am going to build walls in the shape of a U, 2.4 m high. The first leg will be about 4 m, the back against the slope 7.6 m, and then a small section about 1.4 m. The wall will be backfilled approximately 1.5 - 2 m high with sand, except for gravel closest to the wall.
I don't want to steal too much space inside the garage for the counterfort, otherwise, a section of inner wall would work. But I'm considering whether two steel beams from floor to ceiling might be enough to support the wall. What does the expertise here think, could that be enough, or should I build an "inner wall" in the middle of the 7.6 m wall?
(I am using 25cm leca blocks)
