Yesterday we completed the shuttering of the front to back trench. We then started on the entertainment room.
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Then today, we finished off the shuttering around the Entertainment room, and then did the two independent pads!
We were working in a very light rain some of the afternoon today, but we carried on and finished this phase of the foundation work.
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Tomorrow, we will start the job of digging out the content of the trenches, right around the whole house everywhere. That will probably take a couple of days, some will be easy but some will be very hard! Then after that, we put in reinforcement mesh and additional re-bars around areas where the load is particularly heavy, or the ground is not as firm and solid as the rest of land. We are taking extra care in these areas and compacting the soil and sand as much as possible, but we will also take care to have these extra reinforcing bars to ensure that the foundations are solid at all times in the future.