Week Forty Two – What was that Question Again?

Wondering what to call the barn when it's finished.  My mind is a bit foggy on this one.

How about Misty Hollows?

Some rebars for reinforcing the slab in front of the rear wall.

We're getting the power company to re-site our electric meter. We have to prepare by digging a trench across neighbour’s lawn - as you do. He has a pole in his garden which supplies our barn via an overhead cable. The don't do overhead any more - hence the trench.

Upstand. The vertical part of the steel reinforced concrete retaining wall. They start by assembling the rebars as specified by our Engineer. They'll next put shuttering, sheets of ply, in front of it and pour concrete in. But they have to do the horizontal slab  first - or else the concrete would just run out the bottom ...

Have to provide ducts for services and drains for plant room through what will be the concrete slab.

Still concerned with the quality of our borhole water. Before getting it tested again we've been running the pump, discharging into the stream, to flush out the stuff left by the drilling operation and hopefully get a more representative sample for testing.

Water looks reasonably clear after the pump has been running for some time. Otherwise it looks rather brown which, we're told, indicates high iron levels.

Suffolk’s answer to the Himalayas? What shall we call it? Mount Never Rest?

The wall above/behind the chimney breast has been plastered. Looks great.

In addition to water quality and and retaining walls, issues this week have included:  how to join the plant room to the main building (plans show them touching corner to corner - how do you do that?); how high should the plinth wall on the garage / plant room be and how many bricks to order; is there any way we can accelerate the building process?

And finally