And finally, we had to deal with a failed covering on our Timber Store located in our Swimming Lane. The tarpaulin has been completely “fallen” apart from being blasted by the Ultraviolet radiation from the Summer Sun! We didn’t know that the Tarpaulin was a non-stable UV material, probably a cheap and nasty one we […]
This afternoon, after the rain interruption in the morning, we moved few more tons of dirt over to the gap between the back wall of the swimming lane and the fence to our neighbours. It is now full and heap a little bit higher than needed so it can sink down over the coming months. […]
This afternoon, we started the tidy up process. We have finished building the walls of the swimming lane, as part of this stage of construction goes. We are now using the excellent space for storage and we are re-organising the site to move various items around. Like for example, all the concrete blocks we got […]
It is nice to see the 3rd row all completed! It is looking neat and tidy, especially with the black DPM plastic sheet covering and protecting the mortar joints from any rain showers at the moment while the cement set and cures. The final 24½ blocks went in smoothly, taking us 4 hours to lay […]
We grabbed the morning to start the 3rd row of the front wall, doing 25 blocks before the rain came in the afternoon. This is our last row of the fat 215mm wide concrete blocks – at last!! Well at least, for this stage of the swimming lane construction, as we got the pond and […]
With our early start this morning, we managed to finish off the 2nd row of the front wall before we had to stop for other tasks and commitments. A 9am start saw us doing the final 16 blocks before 12:30pm, which also included the delay of our mortar guide breaking apart under the strain of […]
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 of the 2nd row of the front wall of the swimming lane. It was a long haul and we didn’t finish until 7:40pm – phew! […]
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 the remaining 19 concrete hollow blocks. It went very well, laying the block nice and evenly, even though we discovered that a fair number of […]
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 us about 4 hours to do. It was a case of spending quality time on making sure the blocks were level and at the correct […]
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 collapsed and washed down away from that higher grounds during the thunderstorm we had back in January. It is all rather neat now and once […]