progress...

Despite a week of gales and rain work has continued apace.

Three courses of blockwork and the slab are in the ground.

We'll give it a bit of time to cure and then onwards and upwards.

In the meantime...we might as well jump!

good footing

We have footings. After watching the essentially subtractive progress up to this point it’s nice to see something actually being added.

Reinforced concrete footings there for all the world to see. But hopefully not for too long…

the site foreman

The 3 year old loves the building work.


So much so that he has appointed himself as Site Foreman.

He’s always there to issue instructions, inspect the works, check the lines, supervise the subs, and even pitch in and help if required.

He’s also taken it upon himself to issue a revised plan.

He tells me the toilet’s in the wrong place and he’s shifted it to a more appropriate location.

Upstart.

what we're aiming for...

the problem with living on a beach

We have amazing "soil". I use that term loosely as our "soil" is very...well, loose. We live on a raised beach. So under the 6" of turf you find stone. Not solid stone but lots and lots of stones. It's actually pretty good stuff to build on. Much better than clay or peat at least.


The only problem (or at least the biggest problem) is that it's practically self leveling. You dig a hole and it fills itself in. Which means that slopes have to be kept fairly shallow making any hole you want twice as big as you want it to be and once you've dug it with a machine you have to re-dig by hand all the stones which have slid back into the hole.

what's wrong with this picture...

1. There's a hole in our sitting room wall.
2. It's a beautiful day.

What's right?
See above.

Also: We're on schedule.
Only three days in and no delays.
All of the subs have showed up as promised.
Digger on site this morning.
Electric cable to be shifted today.
And the weather is holding.

Its a rather surreal thing having a hole right next to the sitting room stove. Like a doorway into another dimension. A dimension where builders show up and the sun is always shining. Let's hope this dimension stays around for a while.