Category: Groundworks

 Today, in the lovely sunny weather we are still having here, we constructed a homemade mobile viaducts to help carry the ready mixed concrete from the lorry up on our…

The building inspector has to check on the construction at certain critical stages and poring foundations is one of them… So today he came and had a look at our finished…

 The last stage of preparing the foundations have been completed. There are two places that need reinforcement, the entertainment room (beacause of the heavy walls and roof) and around the…

 Today, we finished off scraping all the trenches of our strip foundations to make sure we have brought up the depth of the trenches so it is more consistent. We…

 Today, we started .. and finished (wow!) the digging and removing the “content” of the foundation trenches. Some of the sandy soil was easy and could be just scooped out,…

While digging for the entertainment room shuttering we found a great heap of old batteries, more than 40! We think these where part of battery pack to power a ‘portable’…

 Yesterday we completed the shuttering of the front to back trench. We then started on the entertainment room. Then today, we finished off the shuttering around the Entertainment room, and then…

 We managed to finish off the front line of trenches, going around the complex air tunnel and chimney section, and continued along the final long side, F6 to B6 front…

 We carried on with the front strip of the foundation, with the completion of the Hall and Entertainment bits and also part of the Utility room too. We were constructing…

 This afternoon, after the morning was rather damp with rain showers, we started on doing the line of the foundation trenches along the front of the house. we have completed…