READY FOR INSPECTION

Monday and Tuesday, these days were spent in final adjustments to the foundations

The foundation blocks have a tolerance of plus/minus 1cm, so it is not so exact, of course the better you do it, the better the result, so the blocks which were too high, we scraped away a little off the surface, those that were too low, we added a little sand under them, now everything is about as level as we need.

JIM, CHECKING THE LEVEL, USING THE LASER LEVEL

Then it was time to put in the steel reinforcing, in this case it is two strips of 12mm rolled steel, fortunately I have the tool for doing the bending, otherwise it would be very difficult, I've no idea why the towns engineer determines that it must be 12mm steel, in the previous ones I have built, not just for myself, but for others as well, it has only been 10 mm, maybe we have joined up to some earthquake area, or the ground is too clayish and need a bit more strength.

TOOL FOR BENDING THE STEEL, picture shows bending threaded rod. life would be so much more difficult without this tool.

3 PICTURES TAKEN OF THE FOUNDATIONS AND STEEL REINFORCING.

This picture was taken to show what the traditional wooden formwork takes, certainly those blocks that we have used saved us a lot in time and materials, guess that's development for you.
Now we are ready at least for the town engineer to come and inspect the form and reinforcing, after he gives the go ahead, then we can pour the concrete, hope it passes, as the concrete is ordered for midday tomorrow, also hoping that the weather fairy is with us, as I look out the window now, well it is the proverbial cats and dogs, either way, tomorrow is a big day, rain or shine, stand by for inspection