Daily Archives: 2014/04/26

Days 26–27: Blocks, trenches and drainage pipes


The blocklayers waste no time in getting organised. Meanwhile Jarrod digs the trenches for the stormwater and sewer lines that connect into the sewer and stormwater mains at the south-east corner of the site.          

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Interlude: the things we think we see


It takes imagination for architects, engineers and builders to design and build a house. Along the way, strange things sometimes appear.

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Day 25: block by block


In the preceding days, the concrete cures enough to allow the formwork to be stripped off and a couple of pallets of blocks are delivered to the site. Getting them from the top of the block down to where the blocklayers … Continue reading

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