Day 5 of Perimeter Wall Construction
Today, in a mixture of sunshine and clouds but no rain, we finished off the final 9½ corners to complete the 4 tiers we got designed for our Perimeter Wall,…
Day 4 – Perimeter Wall Corners Taking Shape!
Today, under a cloudy sky and swirling winds, we finished off the 3rd tier of concrete blocks, doing 12 corners to complete the loop around the building, each corner having…
Day 3 of Perimeter Block Wall Construction
We carried on with doing the 2nd course of concrete blocks, working around the 9 corners. We decided to split the mortar amount in half so that we could control…
Day 2 of Perimeter Wall Construction
In the morning we finished off the front 5 corners to complete the set of 14 corners our building has, and this allows us to get a consistent and accurate…
Perimeter Wall Commences – Day 1
We finally start going upwards with our building, we have done virtually all of 9 corners out of the 14 we have in our house. The first course of block…
Assembled More Tools and Setup for Job!
Today, we finished assembling our various templates and tools to help us build the wall. The L right angle template is working fine outside, after we have also made a…
Final Preparations Towards Building Perimeter Wall
Today, we finished off the preparation work of moving the remaining 300 concrete blocks, well actually more like 250 blocks as we still got a an untouched palette load of…
Preparing for Building Perimeter Wall
Today, in glorious summer weather, we went around all the foundations and filled in the gaps and drop-offs around the edges of the foundations to the surrounding soil, so we…
Tidy Up Day 2
We finished off the tidying up task by removing the last lengths of shuttering and putting all the loose pieces back under cover in our Timber Storage. The used pegs (which are…
Tidy Up After Concrete Poured!
Today, we started going around removing the shuttering boards and planks from the foundation strips. We also picked up the lumps of concrete that spilled over the edges and started the…