We started on the big shed a good few weeks ago and have got pretty welladvanced since this early shot. Here is the ground just after we placed the drainage - made from reclaimed fish farm pipe - a good 150mm internal diameter.
The footings took ages as the ground was very wet in places and very variable - from rock to mud in a few metres - such are the perils of building on a raised beach. All the levels worked out very well though and the diagonals were within 3mm - not bad for a 6 x 4.8m shed base.
Three courses of blockwork were sufficient to get us to the right level and we backfilled from the pile of 75mm stone on the driveway with the digger. Here yet another problem struck as the digger suffered loss of hydraulic pressure and we are still waiting for the right part to sort out the problem. This is a very bad time to lose the digger as we need it each day but our friend Andy helped out with his mini-digger by finishing off the backfilling for us.
We have hand mixed about 150 batches of concrete in all for this shed with me mixing and barrowing and Jayne placing raking our and levelling. Everything is within 2mm so we are pleased with our accuracy but not our rate of progress. We had to move all the 20mm down concreting aggregate - over a tonne and a half- by hand for most of the flooring from the pile about 20m away. Double handling is tiring and a real pain. Thankfully Andy moved enough in half an hour for us to finish the strip of floor in this pic which is where we are right now. We will not get the house founds done in time at this rate and are looking to get a pan mixer in to get the main roundhouse founds and floors done.
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