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 we got on with the 4th layer of our Perimeter concrete block wall and did 51 blocks before lunch time at 1pm.
After lunch, with a little breeze and clouds hanging over head, we completed the loop by putting down 56 blocks, our afternoon load of mortar didn’t quite reach the end so we had to mix a small extra quantity to finish off the very last 1¼ blocks.
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It was a long day, from 9am to almost 7pm and doing 107 blocks which smashed the previous record, but it was well worth the effort as it is very pleasing to see it all done! So This Concludes the block laying for the concrete Perimeter Wall which took us 11 days!
The next job is to spray bitumen paint on the outer surface to provide that extra protection against surface water and rising damp from the soil.
Later when we are pouring the floor slab we will also fill the hollow columns with concrete.