Roselea

 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…

 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…

 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…