Manic Tuesday
Today has been manic. I have started a labourer on site as I just cannot keep up with the “little jobs” that I have been trying to do but that seem to end up taking up most of the day and just never seem to get finished so the sensible thing to do was take [...]
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 [...]
Concreted footings today
3 day’s in and things have gone well. We hit chalk at around 800 mm in the majority of the excavation except on the chimney side where we went down 1 meter and left it for the DS and NHBC inspection. The District Surveyor was OK with everything but requested another .5 of a meter [...]
