Remaining Pillars Installed for Corners and Kitchen Wall Framework Finished
For our last week of work for 2020 (and also before a long break because of Christmas and a minor medical issue), we went around the last twelve Pillars across…
Second CLS Layer Laid Down, Analysis and Mapping of Wall Structure and Building of Pillars
For the start of the new week, we both tidied up all the “blobs” of mortar sticking around all the footplates and also tightened all the remaining concrete screws down.…
Entire Ground Floor’s Rooms are Mapped Out and Footplates Installed
We resumed the task of laying out the footplates for the entire Ground Floor rooms. We had to tidy up all the excess jumble of bits and pieces that used…
Laying Out Footplates for Kitchen, Bedroom 1 and Great Room
After doing other tasks and chores for most of this week, we started on Friday afternoon, the task of mapping out the shapes of the Kitchen and Bedroom 1, with…
Second Delivery of CLS Timber Arrives
Our remaining timber arrived Thursday yesterday late afternoon. There were 348 planks in this second delivery, adding with our previous one of 99, we now have 447 planks of 63mm…
Concrete Beams and Blocks Forms the Lid for the Entertainment Room
This week it is the turn of the Concrete Beams and hundreds more of the concrete blocks to be hoisted up and laid out to form the roof of the…
Concrete Shell Almost Finished
Monday, we did two and half layers in building up our wall inside the Entertainment Room, that is over seventy blocks! We completed layer 4, then number 5 and number…
Concrete Wall Grows Taller
For this new week, we started the task of building the concrete shell that will sound proof our Entertainment Room. The first task was to make a template to help…
Ten Concrete Beams Arrives
Suddenly at a bright early hour, our concrete beams, all ten of them, arrive! We had to parked them on our driveway in such a position so we could then…
Concrete Blocks Arrives
The first load of new building material arrived today. 576 dense concrete blocks arrived with a ton bag of soft sand, eight bags of cement, two large paving slabs and…