First Load of Blocks, Sand and Cement Arrives!
Three pallets of concrete (215mm x 215mm x 440mm ) blocks, a pallet of Blue Circle cement bags and a ton of soft sand arrives today. It is our first…
Contraction Slots and Re-Bars Framework Removed
After two days of rest to recover from the hectic episode of getting the ready-mixed concrete in, we today, went out to cut slots in the slab to “guide” cracks…
Shaun has burned his knees with Concrete
While we were laying the concrete, we were occasionally kneeling on the wet concrete. Shaun was working on a particularly wet part and the concrete soaked through his knee pads…
Concrete Is In!
Our ready mixed concrete duly arrived this morning, 8am sharp! We managed to get our little extension chute installed on the dumper truck in time and park it over by…
re-bar support framework has been constructed
The framework for holding the reinforcing bars in the correct positions, has been constructed using our pile of 63mm CLS timber. We drove in pegs and posts to hold the…
Ready mix concrete ordered
We have ordered 4 cubic metres of ready mixed concrete for Monday 8am! The price has gone up since 5 years ago and now is £425 for this load!! Yes,…
Re-Bars cut and bent!
Today, we started on the job of slicing up 55 6metres steel bars into 105 lengths of 2metres, and 100 lengths of 1metre. Then all were bent right angles, so…
Foundation Trench Constructed!
We have finished constructing the foundation trench framework. We put in about 8 tons of crushed builders rubble (maximum 75mm / 3inch size) and then blinded the surface with clean…
Swimming Lane is Next to do
We have decided to start building the swimming lane first before the main house, because we had a serious problem with rain water this week, when we had very heavy…
Rain Washes Fence and Shoring Panels Down!
We had a bit of a disaster today when the rain came and came and came! It was one of those 10 year events of massive amount of water over…