Monday: Digger arrives ready to start on Tuesday.
Week 1
W/C April 2nd 2001
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Monday: Digger arrives ready to start on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday: The first sod of turf is dug |
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We get some cheap child labour to drive the digger. |
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Chickens appreciate the nice dug ground with plenty of fresh juicy worms |
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Wednesday: Digging of the footings is finalised and the building inspector gives them the OK. |
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Close up of the dodgy dumper driver. |
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Thursday: Dumper and digger go off hire. |
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Concrete Mixer arrives with its first load. |
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Concrete is poured for the footings just before the rain comes down again. |
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Friday: No builders in today but Suzanne orders the following for the next week:
Tie irons
4 packs Common Bricks
4 600 X 100 Prestessed Lintels
2 900 X 100 Prestressed Lintels
1 Load of building sand
5 ltrs of mortar Plasticiser
12 bags of portland cement
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Saturday: Clean up day and buy a small electric mixer and a builders wheelbarrow. |
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It took me 4 hours to put this thing together (in the rain). |
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Note the first pile of sand has also been delivered. |
| Sunday: Went and purchased a Stihl FS85RT combination Strimmer/Hedgecutter and Pruner to remove any trees and bushes that get in the way. |
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Then we retired to put our Anoracks on.
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