Automatic Pump to Extract Rainwater from House
This morning, whilst it rained, we made an automatic pump to extract and remove the rainwater from inside our house footprint. The concrete is open to the sky so we are…
Day 6 of Drilling Holes and Preparation Work for Roof Framework
This afternoon, the task of drilling all the bigger holes (13mm in diameter) continued and was finished today, using the hired “mag drill” machine with its core drill bit. The…
Electrical Conduit buried and Cable Threaded
Yesterday and this morning, we buried a conduit around the building site, from the garage at the bottom of the camera pole, all the way to the top of the…
Day 5 of Preparation Work on Steel Beams
Finishing in the dark this evening, we had drilled dozens of 13mm holes in the I beam pieces standing outside on timber planks! We had to turn over the…
Floor Cleared of Rubble
This afternoon, we concluded the bulk tidy-up of the chunks of concrete rubble lying inside the Perimeter Wall, loaded into 4 wheelbarrows and transported down to our “rubbish” area, made…
Day 4 of Steel work
After getting the Mag Drill we finished off cutting the angled ends of the beam ties. Then we started marking and drill holes in the beams outside. The beams will…
Magnetic Drill
We collected the rented Magnetic drill this morning. The drill has an electromagnet in the base so once you position the drill you turn on the magnet and the drill…