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Showing posts with label concrete. Show all posts
Showing posts with label concrete. Show all posts

Thursday, July 1, 2010

292 - Driveway

The old driveway is gone and getting ready for the concrete to arrive tomorrow.
New slat walls beside the deck and around the entrance at the back. Waiting for me to paint them.
Euan working on the driveway on the other side of the building. That's a new driveway edge which will have planting behind. Retaining walls waiting for me to stain them.

I haven't updated about 292 for a while but that's not to say that nothing has been happening! Plenty has been going on.
All the interior painting has been finished and the tiling is well underway - finished by the end of tomorrow we hope. Meanwhile, Euan the builder has been tackling the outside area. Last week this area was a complete mess - the plumbers had dug up all the dirt to lay the pipes. It was during the heavy rainstorms so there was water and mud everywhere. It is looking much better now and even more so tomorrow when the concrete truck arrives.
Dad and I have a weekend of finishing exterior painting details and cleaning up in preparation for next week. The plumbers and electricians will take over early next week to do their finishing touches, then the carpet will follow, in which I then follow with all my belongings and officially move in. Yah!
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

292 - More Concrete

Concrete was poured into the block work yesterday, making it ready for timber framing to go up. Yay - soon we'll see some three dimensional and vertical action happening!
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

292 - Concrete and Breaking Through!

Euan getting the last of the steel rod beams in place and the concrete truck is on its way.
All ready and waiting.
Done.
Breaking through the wall.

I went on-site a couple of days ago and Euan was finishing off the steel rod beams as the concrete truck was literally minutes away. I went back this morning and all the concrete has been done. All the holes and ditches are filled and now we wait for the block layer to start the block work. Until then, Euan has broken through the exterior wall (eek!) to start fixing some of the existing lower cladding. Hopefully we can start seeing some framing going up next week. Fingers crossed.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

292 - Concrete



Making sure that the posts are straight.


The concrete truck arrived today to put the retaining wall posts in place. It is a bit of a juggle - making sure the posts are all straight as the concrete gets poured in. We should see a wall soon with all the earth packed in behind.
Following this, Euan can start on the foundation for the new addition.
Photographs by Charlotte Minty.