Thirteen Tons of Ballast Ordered!
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…
Fourth Row Complete and Fifth Half Done!
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…
Fourth Row Progresses
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…
Fourth Row is Coming
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…
Third Row almost complete
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…
2nd Row Complete and 3rd started
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,…
Another Half a Wall done
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…
Back Wall Has Started
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…
Concrete Blocks Moved and Ready
We moved all the 120 concrete blocks over to the slab, spread out along the whole length (22.5metres), ready to build up 2 layers of the back wall, and the…
Removed remaining Foundation shuttering
We also removed the shuttering framework that was wrapping around the foundation slab. The 89mm CLS timber, all 10 lengths of them, are now piled up on the side, ready…