Saturday, November 19, 2016

Autumn progress at Cae Helygen

No update in the last few months but we have made progress-
Electricity supply installed
Bedrooms concrete floor laid
Blockwork walls to make the bedrooms and bathroom
Sewage treatment plant installed
Currently we have installed the crogloft floor beams and are putting the joists in and the roof slates are coming along.......
 Hardcore and sand blinding on the bedrooms floor  with thickening for the blockwork walls. Visqueen next
 Concrete mixer arrived 
 Barrowing the concrete in

 Jonny - Tim and Liz making a proper tamping device
 Liz and Jonny borrowing
 Alan, Jonny Tim, Liz and Chris  a great job thanks 
 The walls in the bedrooms area were not square so it was challenging to work out what to do then Dan came back and blocked up the walls.
 Dan did a great job - I finished off the walls with the raking tool 

Nearly ready for the crogloft steels
 Robyn came back and dug the trench for the electricity supply
 Scottish power came and joined it all up- good job
 We ordered 2 crogloft steels - pretty heavy and used the JCB to move them in through the gable end
 Steve the stone mason and Tim helped to move the steel into place- we bought wheels for the scaffolding which make a huge difference to moving it around
 Robin came back and dug the hole for the Sewage treatment plant  which is a Marsh industries 4-6 person packet treatment plant
 Concreting the base
 In place and inspection chambers being fitted

  Getting the fall right was important across the yard 25mm per metre. it was shallow across the yard so we covered it with mesh and concrete