With an interrupted morning, we carried on with the laying out of the DPM plastic sheeting across the whole ground area of the building. We covered up the Great Room and most of the second strip of the Kitchen and Bedroom 1. We used another 2½ wheelbarrow load of sand to fill in the hollows which means getting a more consistent thickness for the Floor Slab.
First-two-strips-of-DPM
We also nailed up the necessary fluffy expansion boards (straight into the concrete blocks, we are using hardened T nails with one of our air nail-gun tools!) around the finished section to hold the plastic in place and help it not to get blown around in the wind.
Expansion-Strip-nailed-to-walls
It rained for 15 minutes during the afternoon but it wasn’t so bad as to stop work. Tomorrow, we continue with this job, laying the sheet out, finding where the pipes needs to come through and smoothing out the surface, all ready for the concrete Floor Slab – not long now!