Floor poured and ready for blockwork

Floor poured on thurs 26th sept, foundation stage now complete and ready for blockwork to begin.. At last we are going up instead of down.

Plumber - in before floor is floated

Plumber installing pipes today ....Radon barrier and all insulation applied tuesday 23rd september....And plumbing put in on wednesday 24th of september. Floor to be poured on thursday 25th september while weather is fine..Supposed to be dry till till monday...

floor insulation

Floor insulation and footings

Footings

Footings completed thursday 18th....

Water on site

Getting the water tanks onto site for blocklayer. Wesley is ploughing a nice start line...

Footings

Footings begun on 18th sept 2008...

Blockwork

Blocks delivered to site today for the footings to begin..Blocklayer..from myshall... 500 blocks delivered at 10.30am wed 17th sept

Raft Foundation - concrete in

Wednesday the 10th sept..concrete poured and shuttering removed 2 days after. Clean finish by martin moran and co.. Little gap left on edge for footings to fit in..Next step is footings ,plumber and more stone then float the floor.

Raft Foundation - continued

Timber shuttering in place..steel to go in next and then pour concrete. Brian Merne on site just keeping an eye on wesley in the track machine.

Raft foundation - continued

All wooden shuttering in place, 24 steel mesh and 30 steel chairs bought for assembly and concrete and stone to follow.

Raft foundation - continued

Stone in the site..4inch down stone - Rolled down every 8 inches...up to 30 loads of stone with approx 23 tonnes in each lorry load.. 9 euro a tone..Also smaller grain stone added to bind it and rolled in. Weather has picked up thank god. Next stage is concrete, steel and shuttering off.