Concrete Man Comes!
The concrete Rep from Lafarge came today to see our site. Full of very useful information. We have ordered 4.5 cubic metres and it is coming tomorrow at 11am. The…
BCO approves Holes!
Our friendly BCO have been and inspected our holes, ready for the concrete foundations of the garage. It looks very nice and well compacted he said so he’s happy, we…
Filled around the foundations
All of the area around the foundations has now been filled to nearly the right level. The area inside the garage was filled with sand and compacted and the outsides…
Electric man visit
Having paid the kings ransom on Monday, the man from EDF energy came this morning. Looked at the site and old meter and approved the route for the new cable.…
Doing Form work (not paper ones)
Sunday Cleared last bit of topsoil alongside the sheds away by spade and barrow, then carefully marked out the four corners of the garage, checking to ensure everything was square! Monday Started by…
Requested BCO to come and inspect foundations
We are ready for the next inspection visit. This time it is our foundations and making sure the bottom of the trenches are on firm ground ready for 300mm thick…
Cutting time
Made a large saw table to expand the much smaller table saw to a usfull size. We then cut up 6 sheets of 18mm OSB into 300mm wide strips for…
Ready to start garage foundations
Placed and compacted more sand in the garage footprint ready to install the form work for the foundations. The foundations will be 300mm thick and start 450mm below finished ground…
Service trench completed
Thursday 30th Installed all the pipes and conduits into the trench after sliding 2 x 22mm plastic plumbing pipe with foam insulation (25mm on flow and 19mm on return) into…
Service trench
Digging initial trench from the garage to the loke and along the loke a few meters. On Tuesday we dug most of it and finished it off Wednesday morning. The…