Damaged Cement Bags
Today, during our tidy up of the site, we were moving the last 18 bags of cement, and discovered that several of the bags, 4 of them, were damaged. We…
All 420 Concrete Blocks Moved!
Today, we finished off moving the concrete blocks, all 420, yes all four hundred and twenty concrete blocks on 7 pallets. These are the narrow 140mm hollow blocks and we…
Tidy Up After Wall Building!
This afternoon, we started the tidy up process. We have finished building the walls of the swimming lane, as part of this stage of construction goes. We are now using…
Third Row Completed on Front Wall!
It is nice to see the 3rd row all completed! It is looking neat and tidy, especially with the black DPM plastic sheet covering and protecting the mortar joints from…
Third Row Commences on Front Wall
We grabbed the morning to start the 3rd row of the front wall, doing 25 blocks before the rain came in the afternoon. This is our last row of the…
Second Row of Wall Completed!
With our early start this morning, we managed to finish off the 2nd row of the front wall before we had to stop for other tasks and commitments. A 9am…
Second Row of Front Wall well over Half Completed
We were interrupted with heavy rain showers in the morning, so we didn’t get started on doing any work until after lunch at 2:30pm. We managed to do 33 blocks…
First Row of Front Wall Completed
It was a lovely sunny day on this Sunday, to complete the 1st row of the front wall of the swimming lane. We took four and half hours to do…
Continued with the First row of the front wall
We spent half a day on doing the 1st row of concrete blocks for the front wall of the swimming lane. We managed to do 17 blocks today which took…
Soil / Dirt / Rubble put Back Behind new Back Wall
Today, we shovelled loads of soil and rubble back over to behind the new Back Wall of the swimming lane. Much of this dirt was the same material that had…