Unmuddy the loke
I don’t know if the word exists but we relaid the surface of the loke just before our new drive. After all the trucks last week the end of the loke…
New path to the new front door
One of the last groundwork tasks finished. We laid paving slabs from the front door to the loke. The wonder of a diamond saw allowed us to make a neat…
Tons of wood delivered
Yes we mean that literally! Over 8 tons of timber has been delivered today. Some of it was special ordered so we got a whole pack of it, which is…
High contrast surfaces
Shaun noticed that there was a high contrast between the wax covered slab (nearly white) and the asphalt drive (dark grey)!
Sawn the concrete
As advised we cut saw slots in our nice pristine concrete slab, this is to allow the concrete to crack in a predefined place if the ‘plastic shrinkage’ exceed the tensile…
Materials Storage Area prepared
We finished off the materials storage area today. This where we will put all the bulk deliveries of timber and other building supplies. A week ago we flattened the triangle…
Removed slab formwork
As requested by Kevin we removed the formwork from the slab this morning. The slab as set hard already and can be walked on… though it is very slippery where…
Garage slab concrete poured
After the problems bailing out the actual pour went smoothly! There were 3 loads of concrete (Agilia Force) delivered between 11:00 and 12:15. Each load only took 3-4 minutes to…
Water, water everywhere!
Well we had 10.9mm of rain since we finished the DPM Yesterday. That’s over 800 litres of water to get out of the garage slab DPM. The job was not…
Its raining !
According to the weather meter we have had 3.5mm of rain in the last hour… This is nearly 270 litres of water in our slabs DPM ‘tank’ . We will have…