Its a wet miserable morning here in cork just after arriving in the office, said i would write a post first. The crew started yesterday 3 men up from home one being my father they made great progress marked out and started digging all the foundations, and then they met rock!!!!
Rang the engineer who will be signing off the building and he has stated that all the foundations will have to come to the level of the underlying bedrock in order to achieve even settlement. This means taking certian walls down by another 16" or so and making back up levels with a lean mix of concrete (a weaker dry mix).
They are due again this morning and will start straight at this, i have the lean mix on order for 12 today and hopefully the weather will be ok for them. I got 10 sheets of A393 mesh delivered yesterday 60 stock brick and a couple of lengths of timber, hopefully by the end of the day they will have the foundations ready to pour for Wednesday morning, steel in on top of bricks and all pegs into level.
I had a tractor and dump trailer on site yesterday morning to take away a couple of loads of clay, but the ground conditions were so wet that it could not manouver. Had to hire in a 9 tonne dumper for a couple of days instead.
Will post again tomorrow on todays progress.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
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hello sir jollyman, i know its wet weather but what would u expect for this time of year come on now, i mean its only the foundations not as if ur roofing her! best of luck and keep us posted..
Are you heading for Sweden soon? How often will you be able to visit the site then sounds like your new lady wife will have to put her mangaement skills to the test, i can meet her at any stage and sher if she wants you have my mobile she can give me a ring. With your place being so close i can give you a list of the people i will be using and you will be able to see all the prices on the budget tracker as it is updated.
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