Progress During November 2009

  • Stupid plastic rain shelter. The bitumen glue only works on very dry surfaces.
  • Annie leveling sand blinding which the foamglas sits on.
  • Foamglas three layers thick, cut like a jigsaw.
  • Radon membrane down, steels going in for the slab.
  • Concrete chute supported a few inches above the slab level.
  • Blocking the gaps around the joist hole shuttering.
  • The concrete chute in action.
  • The concrete vibrator
  • Compating the small pour which completes this section of basement wall.
  • Concrete vibrator action shot.
  • Slab in place and set!
  • Happy Si
  • Resin bonded helical ties. The stone wall that I'm keeping ties into the inner skin,
  • All the ties bonded into place.
  • Insulation going into the wall cavity on the Sydenham Lane side.
  • Pointing
  • View from the front door just before building the front stone wall.
  • Link bars
  • Steel for the back wall cantilever