Up up and away...(20th - 26th Jan)

Tuesday 20th
No house work today. Mark drove Nick up to Kalamunda to check out the job Ken & Rod are working on. I started doing ECU work but too many people dropped in & I hardly got anything done.

Wednesday 21st
Mark did a couple of trips to Slab & garden city for roadbase and sand. We checked out limestone city for limestone sizes and prices. Bought a couple of blocks to get us started. We mixed concrete and put down the front footing. Mark shaped the first couple of blocks. Every one of the front blocks has to be bevel cut on all 4 sides to try and match in with the existing front wall. Very time consuming. It's like putting a jigsaw puzzle together trying to work out which piece will fit where, so lots of thinking and discussion at the end of each day to work out tomorrows tasks.

Thursday 22nd

I picked up a few more blocks of limestone while Mark carried on cutting the blocks to shape. We now have 4 blocks concreted in...as I said very time consuming! I spent the day cleaning bricks.

Friday 23rd

Mark cut and laid more limestone, we now have 12 blocks in place.

 


And I cleaned more bricks (groan). The cleaned pile is growing slowly, but the uncleaned pile doesn't appear to be shrinking.

 


 


Saturday

 


 


 



Off to Bunnings to buy conduit and water pipe to bury underground before we pour the footing for the side wall. Today was spent digging trenches, laying pipes, filling in trenches and compacting. Mark cut more blocks for the front wall and I cleaned bricks. We are ready to pour the footing, but as we are not allowed to work on Sun or Mon...it won't happen until Tuesday next week.

Sunday
Day off - no work as per council regulations!

Monday
Day off. Australia Day. We are off to the Brisbane Hotel for lunch with Jill, Wayne, Luisa & Clayton.

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