Floor Slab is Poured!
What A Day! 7 AM We started at 7am at the crack of dawn to clear away as much as possible the rain water still puddling on the DPM plastic…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
What A Day! 7 AM We started at 7am at the crack of dawn to clear away as much as possible the rain water still puddling on the DPM plastic…
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…
We woke up to a thin layer of snow on some of the raised objects (off the wet ground) where it didn’t melt. The temperature is hovering around the freezing…
After the problems bailing out the actual pour went smoothly! There were 3 loads of concrete (Agilia Force) delivered between 11:00 and 12:15. Each load only took 3-4 minutes to…
Well we had 10.9mm of rain since we finished the DPM Yesterday. That’s over 800 litres of water to get out of the garage slab DPM. The job was not…
According to the weather meter we have had 3.5mm of rain in the last hour… This is nearly 270 litres of water in our slabs DPM ‘tank’ . We will have…
Started mixing concrete and pouring round the base of the tank but we were stoppped by the mixer breaking down. Took it apart and found the motor start capacitor has…