Second Row of Front Wall well over Half Completed
We were interrupted with heavy rain showers in the morning, so we didn’t get started on doing any work until after lunch at 2:30pm. We managed to do 33 blocks…
First Row of Front Wall Completed
It was a lovely sunny day on this Sunday, to complete the 1st row of the front wall of the swimming lane. We took four and half hours to do…
Continued with the First row of the front wall
We spent half a day on doing the 1st row of concrete blocks for the front wall of the swimming lane. We managed to do 17 blocks today which took…
Soil / Dirt / Rubble put Back Behind new Back Wall
Today, we shovelled loads of soil and rubble back over to behind the new Back Wall of the swimming lane. Much of this dirt was the same material that had…
Concrete End Cap Poured
Today, we sealed the end of the gap between the swimming lane’s back wall and the fence, by pouring in concrete into a mould. This End Cap was necessary because…
Sixth Row is Complete!
The back wall is now completed with the 6th row of blocks laid today. we had to do another 31 blocks to finish it off and 1 around the corner…
The Shored Up Soil is Released
Today, after a couple of weeks delay while we waited for the concrete in the back “retaining” wall, to cure and gain proficient strength, we released the shored up soil…
The Tubes are all done!
WOW! We finished it all today, even though we started much later at 11:30am (due to having had an appointment in the morning). We did 38 columns using 9½ bags…
Another 33 Columns filled!
Today, another 33 columns were filled!! We decided that it would make sense to split the mixing load in half and do only a half a bag of cement and…
31 Columns Filled in Back Wall
Today, we managed to fill a further 31 hollow columns in our retaining back wall. This is 8 bags of cement, mixing each bag with 6 builders bucket of ballast.…