Tales From the Box

BRDAY+18

Foundations are important. They help us remain steady and upright. The back slab – the one with all of the attention last week – has some problems. Nothing dramatic – however the slushing of the concrete has yet to occur as the aforementioned slab needs to be further strengthened with some increased metal and a bit more concrete than we had thought. Poor Brian (thats Brian with a i not a y) spent half a day on Monday cutting and inserting metal bars and generally making the whole slab area ready for concrete – but due to the friendly advice from the engineer which wasn’t confident of the load bearing capabilities of the old exterior concrete brickwork.

So the whole area was dug out, brick wall removed, doubling of metal bars and tying in of the bathroom, kitchen and lounge slab pieces.

Over the next few days we should see some big changes, namely to the side walls and to the various plumbing /electrical works around the house.