Day 3 of Perimeter Block Wall Construction
We carried on with doing the 2nd course of concrete blocks, working around the 9 corners. We decided to split the mortar amount in half so that we could control…
Day 2 of Perimeter Wall Construction
In the morning we finished off the front 5 corners to complete the set of 14 corners our building has, and this allows us to get a consistent and accurate…
Perimeter Wall Commences – Day 1
We finally start going upwards with our building, we have done virtually all of 9 corners out of the 14 we have in our house. The first course of block…
Assembled More Tools and Setup for Job!
Today, we finished assembling our various templates and tools to help us build the wall. The L right angle template is working fine outside, after we have also made a…
Final Preparations Towards Building Perimeter Wall
Today, we finished off the preparation work of moving the remaining 300 concrete blocks, well actually more like 250 blocks as we still got a an untouched palette load of…
Preparing for Building Perimeter Wall
Today, in glorious summer weather, we went around all the foundations and filled in the gaps and drop-offs around the edges of the foundations to the surrounding soil, so we…
Concrete Blocks Arrives
Our order of 720 concrete hollow blocks arrived today, on 12 palettes. These 140mm wide blocks will form the four layers of the short perimeter wall to protect our house from…
Drawing house outline in powder
We used the newly placed batter boards to string out and mark (with cement/plaster powder) the outline of the house and all the ground floor rooms. The marked line s…
All Shelving Uprights are Up!
Today we finished putting up the metal shelving uprights. The extra ones we needed came today in the post so all the four walls now have some shelves on them.…
Fully Slotted!
We have finished slicing the walls up! All the slots for all the metal upright brackets are now done and ready for them. There are in total 64 individual uprights…