Author: Shaun

 Today, we started organising our new viaducts shoots so to be ready for the arrival of the ready mixed concrete, but discovered the “heavy” truth  of concrete and how it…

 Today, in the lovely sunny weather we are still having here, we constructed a homemade mobile viaducts to help carry the ready mixed concrete from the lorry up on our…

The building inspector has to check on the construction at certain critical stages and poring foundations is one of them… So today he came and had a look at our finished…

 The last stage of preparing the foundations have been completed. There are two places that need reinforcement, the entertainment room (beacause of the heavy walls and roof) and around the…

 Today, we finished off scraping all the trenches of our strip foundations to make sure we have brought up the depth of the trenches so it is more consistent. We…

 Today, we started .. and finished (wow!) the digging and removing the “content” of the foundation trenches. Some of the sandy soil was easy and could be just scooped out,…

 Yesterday we completed the shuttering of the front to back trench. We then started on the entertainment room. Then today, we finished off the shuttering around the Entertainment room, and then…

 We managed to finish off the front line of trenches, going around the complex air tunnel and chimney section, and continued along the final long side, F6 to B6 front…

 This evening, we had a short sharp heavy rain shower lasting only for 15 minutes or so and we had about 20mm of rain land on us! Generally, our new…

 We carried on with the front strip of the foundation, with the completion of the Hall and Entertainment bits and also part of the Utility room too. We were constructing…