Category: Garage

The Garage

  • Mass Wall Foundation Day 1 & 2

    The Ground Work now commences for the Garage! We are putting in a Mass Wall foundation to hold back the soil and stabilise the concrete fence posts.

    Day 1 – Saturday 24th July

    Finished clearing the area. Recycled old timber (2 by 2s) and shelves to make moulds to create the segments for fixing the fence posts. They are elongated hexagon shapes 775mm wide by 300mm thick and 775mm deep (of which 325mm is visible above ground and 450mm buried down to the frost free zone).Showing the shape of the forms

    Day 2 – Sunday 25th July

    Finished the other 2 moulds. Started with Posts G1, G4 and G7 (numbered from the shed to the compost heap) to dig out the soil for placing the moulds in.

     Form in place around a fence post

    Mixed up just over 5 bags of cement and heaps of ballast to make the concrete and poured it in the three moulds!

    Form filled with concrete

    We will wait and see if we can get the moulds off later when concrete is set!!

  • The first meeting with our Structural Engineer

    Paul Burrell of The Burrell Partnership in Norwich visted us today to discuss what we needed from a structural engineer. We had a fruitfull time and aggreed to retain Paul’s firm as our engineers. We agreed a fixed fee of £1000 for the job. We will now send them the plans for the garage so calcs. can be done.