Concrete Blocks Arrives
Our order of 720 concrete hollow blocks arrived today, on 12 palettes. These 140mm wide blocks will form the four layers of the short perimeter wall to protect our house from…
Foundation Concrete Is Poured!
Here’s the site at 7:46 before we got started … Our day started at 8:30 am with the arrival of the concrete pump lorry (half an hour early) .. The pump…
Preparations for Concrete Finished
We finished the preparation tasks, in readiness for the ready mixed concrete coming Monday. We went around all the trenches and making sure we can work alongside every stretch of…
Preparations Continues..
Today, we put together a series of tools for scraping and patting down the liquid concrete in the trenches. We have a range of different height of shuttering so each…
Consultation with Concrete Rep Changes Plans
Today, we started organising our new viaducts shoots so to be ready for the arrival of the ready mixed concrete, but discovered the “heavy” truth of concrete and how it…
Concrete Mobile Channels Constructed
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…
Foundation Inspection
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…
Reinforcing Steel Mesh and Bars in Place!
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…
All Compacted, Levelled and Ready!
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…
All Dug Out!
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,…