Ballast Arrived!
Our 13 tons of 10mm crushed ballast arrived today, in two separate loads of 4 tons and 9 tons!
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Construction begins on main house, groundworks, energy modules, swimming lane, foundations, block wall and floor slab.
Our 13 tons of 10mm crushed ballast arrived today, in two separate loads of 4 tons and 9 tons!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
We did two loads of the cement mixer today, one bag of cement in total. This allowed us to do a further 39 blocks. 20 this morning and 19 this…
We got the 2nd row done today before lunch, having started at 9am this morning. That was 21½ blocks put down. We split one of the concrete blocks in half,…
We did only a half day of work today, as we had other commitments in the morning. On Monday, we tried mixing the mortar with 4litres and 50ml of Plasticiser…
Date:21/02/2016 18:33 We started building the back wall of the swimming lane today! We managed to do 43 blocks with 3 mixer loads of mortar before it got dark. Each…