Sunday, May 06, 2012

High low



We didn't get quite as far as I had hoped over the weekend. Preparations for the covering took longer than I thought and the weather was too intermittent to allow a confident attack on the job of applying some plastic. Some high pressure area in the south causing turmoil as it tries to shift the low pressure lying on top of us. Fearsome storms about the place and then back to spring again.
We got the foundation in for the wall around the south side and put in the basic timber structure for that. This is a view from the opposite side to those seen before. It gives a view of the veranda from whence I normally push the shutter button and shows something of the nature of the structure on the eastern shore of the dome.

Sammy put in some time arranging the foundation blocks and then stuffing cement in under the the wood sills after we had concreted between the blocks encasing some strategically placed steel bars. Slightly dumb doing everything backwards, but my confidence in the measurements for the dome side positions was not strong enough to make me build from the foundation up, so it has gone in from the top down.