Category: Walls

 Today, we started the task of applying  the bitumen paint to the outside surface of our Perimeter Wall to make it waterproof against damp and floods. The morning was spent…

 With the rise of the sun  (;-), we started work early today at 9am, it was a very humid and stuffy morning with no breeze to keep us cool. But…

 A long day of doing the 3rd course of the block wall and going onto the 4th layer with our morning and afternoon sessions. The morning one saw us doing…

 After lunch, because of the rain forecasted to arrive about 4pm to 5pm which made block laying impractical we had to do something else. So we moved and tidied up…

We started early this morning to try and do as many concrete blocks on our 3rd tier of the Perimeter Wall before lunchtime and the predicted rain coming this afternoon.…

 We set a new record today of putting down 85 concrete blocks in two sessions! This morning, we carried on with the 2nd layer and completed the Great Room, the…

 We finished off the 1st layer this morning and then started the 2nd layer around the back of the building (Bedroom 3 and just into Bedroom 2) before lunch. That…

 Today we carried on doing the 1st layer of the blocks, filling in the straight portions between the corners. Even though we had a delayed start (due to a haircut…

 Today, in a mixture of sunshine and clouds but no rain, we finished off the final 9½ corners to complete the 4 tiers we got designed for our Perimeter Wall,…

 Today, under a cloudy sky and swirling winds, we finished off the 3rd tier of concrete blocks, doing 12 corners to complete the loop around the building, each corner having…