As like so many people, I’ve been remote working during Covid. However, there is now work going on in our build, but with me being remote… I could get used to this! The work has commenced, with some local builders, to convert the garage into a ‘Pool House’. The first…
That is all of the work complete for this trip and with four concrete pours completed, 26.5m3 in total, it has been a real success, despite the little setback and upset at the formwork giving way on the first attempt. Sail-shade posts can be seen in place, but they are…
Whilst not on the original list of jobs for this trip, it would have been a wasted opportunity if we did not complete this job, with the pool basin being dry and other jobs all being completed successfully. The photo below shows the slope the day before the pour, with…
The biggest concrete pour of the build, with 14 cubic metres being poured using the long reach pump truck (28m arm). My daughter is tamping the concrete with the 2m metal bar to help bring the ‘cream’ to the top and sink any aggregate, leaving a nice smooth finish. The…
With the formwork off the front of the feature wall, we have been able to finish preparing the pool terrace slab for pouring. The walls of the pool and surrounding steps / retaining walls have all been tied together using rebar chemically set and tied to the wire sheets of…
Second time lucky! Almost every spare 10 minutes that I had this week was spent trying to find and implement ways to make the formwork for the feature wall stronger. This meant adding additional wooden braces at corners, extra pallets and blocks for support, etc. Glad to say all of…
Apart from adding additional support to the feature wall formwork, following the disaster on Monday, we have been busy getting the slab ready for pouring next week. My daughter has been busy laying membrane and then we have fitted the drains at the correct heights. S-Shaped spacers set the height…
Well that did not go very well at all… Whilst we thought there was enough support in the formworks, they gave way in two places. Both failed at the bottom and we lost lots of concrete as a result. Thankfully disaster was obverted and we ended up using concrete to…
The walls of the technical room have now been built to a height of 1.4m. Eventually it will have a height of 2m, sloping down to 1.6m at the door side. However, some more blocks are needed before then and shuttering of the sloped sides.