31 Columns Filled in Back Wall
Today, we managed to fill a further 31 hollow columns in our retaining back wall. This is 8 bags of cement, mixing each bag with 6 builders bucket of ballast.…
Concrete Filling Begins on Back Wall
This afternoon, we began the task of filling up 101 hollow columns in the back wall of the retaining wall of the swimming lane. We got things organised and place…
Platform and Ramp
The platform and Ramp is now ready for helping us get the concrete into the “hollow tubes” in the wall. The ramp is 12 feet long as we found that…
High Platforms x 4
This afternoon, we built 4 wooden platforms to help with the next stage of pouring concrete down the hollow columns in the ball wall of the swimming lane. In order…
Ballast Arrived!
Our 13 tons of 10mm crushed ballast arrived today, in two separate loads of 4 tons and 9 tons!
Fifth Row Completed and Sixth Row half Done!
Today, we finished off the 5th row and did as much of the 6th row we can do. That is another 38 blocks used! This is a total of 289½…
Thirteen Tons of Ballast Ordered!
Today, we ordered 13 tons of 10mm gravel and sharp sand ballast. This is the quantity we think we need to make the concrete to fill up all the columns…
Fourth Row Complete and Fifth Half Done!
We did well today! We had finished off the 4th row left over from Monday, and started the 5th row. We laid down 48½ blocks in two sessions of 23½…
Fourth Row Progresses
We only did half a day of work today, so we did another 22 blocks on our 4th row of the back wall of the swimming lane. We had another…
Fourth Row is Coming
This morning, we finished off the 3rd row (7 more blocks), and then started on the 4th row. The end wall had another set of reinforcing bars placed horizontally and…