Patent ID: 8720160

Claim:
A method for forming a vertical wall cavity above a raised foundation, the foundation characterized by multiple vertical rigid re-enforcement members linearly arrayed and protruding therefrom, comprising the steps in order: (a) utilizing a raised foundation characterized by multiple vertical rigid re-enforcement members linearly arrayed and protruding therefrom, or providing a raised foundation characterized by multiple vertical rigid re-enforcement members linearly arrayed and protruding therefrom; (b) securing multiple elongate spacers to the vertical rigid re-enforcement members, the spacers spatially positioned in the direction of the thickness of the wall cavity to provide substantial parallelism to the width of the wall cavity; (c) securing multiple horizontal rigid re-enforcement members to the vertically protruding re-enforcement members, the horizontal members spaced apart and positioned in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the raised foundation; (d) orientating and positioning a first wall panel vertically atop the raised foundation, the inside surface of the panel making contact with the facing ends of the multiple spacers defining a first major cavity wall; (e) positioning and securing an edge dam support vertically at each side edge of the first wall panel, the inner surface of the edge dam supports making contact with the edge surface of the adjacent wall panel; (f) positioning and securing a center dam support at each end of the vertical wall cavity area, the inner surfaces thereof lying in substantially the same plane as the inner surfaces of the edge dam supports; (g) Inserting two or more fastener bolts having threaded ends through openings provided through the first wall panel, the bolts extending past the thickness boundary of the wall cavity area; (h) orientating and positioning a second wall panel vertically atop the raised foundation in mirrored alignment with the first wall panel and inserting the fastener bolts through aligned openings provided through the second wall panel, the inside surface of the second panel making contact with the remaining ends of the multiple spacers defining a second major cavity wall; (i) positioning and securing an edge dam support vertically at each side edge of the second wall panel, the inner surface of the edge dam supports making contact with the edge surface of the adjacent wall panel; (j) tightening the wall panels together against the multiple spacer ends; and (k) securing at least two semi-annular vertical dam components at each open end of the wall cavity area with one vertical edge of the first and second semi-annular dam components resting against the inside surface of a center dam support and one vertical edge of the first and second semi-annular dam components resting against the inside surface of an edge dam support, the vertical dam components defining the end boundaries of the vertical wall cavity along the longitudinal direction of the raised foundation.