Roselea

 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…

 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…

 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…

 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…

 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…

 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…

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…

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…

 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…

 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…