Thursday 27 - Finishing off the Foundations

On Thursday Bob was back to finish of digging out the last 20% of the wall footings
Liam mixing the concrete and laying them.
Here you see that the footings are completed .
The next step was to get rid of the last of the spoil from the excavations .
Here you see the man of Digby Services from Penn loading up his wagon with our unnwanted bits of chalk



With all the diging done, at last we can start to build walls, here you see the first layer of bricks being put in place.
The breeze blocks which will hold up the earth are shown being cemented on to the reinforcing rods which will be fixed to the decorative front walls with steel ties.

My dad who was a clerk of works for many years would have approved of the strength being built into this wall.
Tomorrow the bricks are coming and hopefully the brickies to lay them - next week