Welsh Oak visited the site
Met up with our Welsh Oak Frames project manager Keith at lunchtime, he needed to take a look at the site in preparation for the oak frame delivery. He also wanted to check our groundwork measurements for accuracy and run through the scaffolding drawing’s that Welsh Oak had already provided showing where they required scaffolding [...]
Completed the concrete slab
The membrane was laid out first thing in the morning and as the wind was getting up it needed to weighed down with anything we could lay our hands on to stop it blowing away. The NHBC surveyor and the local DS had been booked the previous day so that they could inspect the site [...]
Preparing for the concrete slab
We started the slab make up with 2 lorries of crushed concrete which was spread out across the site and then a vibrating “whacker” plate was used to compact the crushed concrete to provide a solid base for the rest of the slab. Once the based was packed down solid a lorry load of sand [...]
I can’t believe how time has gone by so quickly!
Untitled DocumentI can’t believe how time has gone by so quickly! Well over a year since my last post….mad. What is worst, we still do not have full planning permission, I have the overall size agreed in principle and I have the position agreed. But because the majority of our extra floor area is coming [...]
