The 5th and final day of Smoothing the Ground ready for Floor Slab
For the first half of the day, we finished off scraping and leveling off the remaining section of the Great Room. We are all completely done now, the whole area…
Day 4 of Clearing and Levelling Ground for Floor Slab
With slightly cooler weather, we carried on with the task of scraping and clearing away the excess sand and soil from all the ground between the foundation strips. We did…
Day 3 of Smoothing Off the Ground Ready for Floor Slab
Today, working in damp softened soil, we carried on with the scraping of the soil inside the footprint of the house. We finished off Bedroom 3 and the front half…
Day 2 of Levelling the Ground for Floor Slab
We did a little bit of work this morning before the rain became too heavy for us, scraping the area around the Utility Room working towards Bedroom 3 in the…
Clearing and Leveling area ready for Floor Slab Day 1
Today, we carried on with the tidying up task of removing the batter boards, disassembling the unused concrete shoots, collecting up all the rubbish and any other miscellaneous items left…
Clearing the Site Ready for Floor Slab
This afternoon, we continued with the clear up operation on the site, removing concrete “homemade” blocks, removing the Batter Boards around the outside and repairing the kitchen sewage pipe that…
Day 3 – Completion of Bitumen Waterproofing of Perimeter Wall
This morning, under a baking sun (temperature reached almost 30°C in the shade), we finished off the 2nd coat of the Bitumen waterproof treatment of the Perimeter Wall, around the…
Day 2 of Bitumen Waterproofing Treatment on Perimeter Wall
This morning, under a blanket of white clouds, we carried on with the bitumen painting of the Perimeter Wall, from the back corner of the Great Room and along the front…
Waterproof Bitumen Paint Job Started – Day 1
Today, we started the task of applying the bitumen paint to the outside surface of our Perimeter Wall to make it waterproof against damp and floods. The morning was spent…
Started Clearing the Interior Ground of House
This morning, before the rain came along, we started clearing the area inside our building of all the rubbish and equipment plus chairs and table etc. to get the whole…