A bit of preparation

Monday and Tuesday, this See's us preparing the foundations prior to filling, Tarja came down to the site, she started on the Styrofoam insulation on the inside, Ari and I started on the plastic sheeting and list that goes around the outside.

Dimpled plastic sheet, this is for waterproofing the outside of the foundations, the reason it is dimpled, this is to allow an air gap, just in case of ambient moisture infusing the Cinder/breeze/harko blocks.

Sheeting fitted, this will be the finished ground level.

Detail of sheeting with list on the top.Detail of insulation on the inside, 2 layers of 5cm each, to a depth of 1 metre, an inner strip of 20cm against the breeze/cinder block.All the way around, Tarja is really good at these little jobs that I find for her, start her of with something nice and light, build her up or the heavy stuff, (hope she doesn't read this).

After the sheeting was in place, it was then time for me to apply a light render to the surface of the cinder block, this serves a few purposes, 1, it gives a nice smooth finish to the blocks, making it easier to apply the stone chip dashing that comes on top. 2, the render itself is impregnated with glass fibres, making it a very durable base, 3, it has water repellent qualities.

Just finishing off the render, really must do something about the grey hair though.