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 the blocks left after all the locations around the perimeter of the house now have a pile of these 140 mm wide hollow blocks, ready to hand for constructing the 4 layers of the outer wall.
Perimiter-wall-blocks-piled-up
Then we adjusted the “hooks” on the Batter Boards to mark the position of the perimeter wall, which is always located 150 mm from the outer edge of the foundations, putting in two screws to represent our 140 mm wide wall. The original two outer screws that had defined the foundation strips were removed.
Screws-marking-a-wall-position
Finally, we built two more “helping hand“ tools, giant right angle L templates to guide and orientate each of the 14 corners so that they are nicely right angles and also vertical too.
Block-Corner-setting-tools
We will start in Ernest on Monday by building up each corner (each contains a minimum of 14 blocks, in a four tier L shaped pyramid like structure) before we fill in the long straights.