The building team has done well this week. Trenches dug Tuesday, concrete poured into them on Wednesday and walls built up to floor plate level by the end of Saturday. It’ll be tough keeping up with them.
Here’s the concrete in the trenches. (click on a picture for the slide show)
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- Chopping up the steel
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- Whacking down the trench
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- Hoovering up the loose bits!
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- Pouring concrete into the digger ..
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- … filling the enormous hole
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- Still filling that hole
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- Steel waiting while we fill ….
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- At last – levelling out
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- Shovelling concrete
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- Last bucket load
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- Up to their knees
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- If all else fails, get the shovel
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- Direct pour at last
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- Stan leading the way
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- Look, no hands
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- A niec smooth foundation
And here’s the block work going up
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- Laying the blocks
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- Slicing blocks to size
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- Checking levels
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- Two skin blockwork all round
And for those fans of heavy machinery, here’s a couple of videos …
Concrete mixer
Forklift on steroids
