Another archaeological dig ….
While digging for the entertainment room shuttering we found a great heap of old batteries, more than 40! We think these where part of battery pack to power a ‘portable’…
Drawing house outline in powder
We used the newly placed batter boards to string out and mark (with cement/plaster powder) the outline of the house and all the ground floor rooms. The marked line s…
Digger drips oil
While digging the hole for the first energy module today, we noticed that there were splashes of oil on the digger’s tracks and the ground nearby. It looks like we…
Dug out Pipe 2 Trench
We have dug out the trench for the second sewer pipe today. We dug most of it by hand as it was shallow and easy to dig. We stopped when…
Big Trolley repainted
We bought a big hand trolley (2.4 m x 1.2 m, 1000 kg load) back in 2002, and have used it extensively since. The steel frame has been desperately in…
Mini Trolley Repaired
Stephen repaired the mini trolley on Thursday afternoon and this Morning. The rear wheels were completely broken and the axles bent badly. The front wheels which had been already reinforced…
Made a mortar application tool.
We have made a tool to speed up applying mortar to top of the block for the next row. This is slightly complicated in that there are only narrow rims…
Shaun has burned his knees with Concrete
While we were laying the concrete, we were occasionally kneeling on the wet concrete. Shaun was working on a particularly wet part and the concrete soaked through his knee pads…
Submitted House design to Building Control
We went into Great Yarmouth this afternoon and handed over the package of our construction plans and structural calculations to our new Building Control inspector Kenny Brown. The package contained…
Structural Calculations with the Engineer
Finally, the structural calculations I have been performing over the last year have been submitted to our structural engineer. Paul Burrell visited us this morning and I handed the calculations…