Today, we finished off chopping and slicing points on about a hundred pegs, carried over from yesterday. They are short 500 mm long pieces using spare 63mm by 38mm timbers from our stock pile. Then, we inserted two more batter boards which defined all the foundation square pads to support the metal legs for the […]
Skipping lunch, we put back the batter board, L2, that was moved to allow the mini-digger to dig and pile up all the excess sand soil mixture from the excavation of Energy Module Number 5. We then verified all the batter boards to make doubly sure that they were all in positions and hadn’t moved. […]
We used the newly placed batter boards to string out and mark (with cement/plaster powder) the outline of the house and all the ground floor rooms. The marked line s are the center of their respective walls. View the video to see a 64 times speeded up video of the work. The rooms are (top […]
We finished off inserting the back set of batter boards. These were L2 and R2 which defines the foundation line running from left to right, near the back of the house, that are the sides of bedroom 1 and bedroom 3. L1 and R1, which are already in place, defines the furthest foundation line at […]
Today, we calculated from our technical drawings on the computer, the positions of the front set of the Batter Boards. These Batter Boards are a horizontal board supported on two legs, which allows for nails to be placed, to delineate the edges of building features (for example, Walls, foundations etc). These define the two foundation […]