Concrete form assemblage process and form tie extender therefore

A process for assembling a concrete form structure, having spacedly adjacent first and second form panels, each with inner proximal and outer distal sides, interconnected by form ties with fastening structure at first and second ends, and extending through paired cooperating form tie holes defined in each form panel, by use of form tie extenders having an elongate body of cross-sectional configuration allowing passage through the form tie holes, a first end to aid passage into a form tie hole and a second end with fastening structure to releasably interconnect the fastening structure of a form tie, comprising:

• supporting the first form panel on a support in position to form one side of the concrete form structure;
• extending first ends of form ties from the inner side of the first form panel through predefined form tie holes in the first form panel and spacedly beyond the outer side of the first form panel for fastening on the first form panel;
• fastening the first ends of the form ties on the outer side of the first form panel;
• establishing a second form panel in a temporary position spacedly adjacent the first form panel, at a distance to allow a workman to move in the space between the form panels but less than the combined length of form ties and form tie extenders to extend between the form panels;
• placing first end portions of form tie extenders in form tie holes predefined in the second form panel from the inner side of second form panel;
• interconnecting second end portions of the form tie extenders with the form tie in the paired cooperating form tie hole defined in the first form panel by a workman moving in the space between the first and second form panels;
• moving the second form panel toward the first form panel to a forming position adjacent the first form panel while maintaining the form tie extenders in the form tie holes in the second panel carrying them and in continued interconnection with the connected form ties;
• supporting the second form panel in forming position;
• removing the form tie extenders from the interconnected form ties from the outer side of the second form panel;
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• fastening the second ends of the form ties on the outer side of the second form panel.