Well the bricklayers were busy the week before last and last week they had a break...
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| This is the wall 20cm from our fence line that Brad had told DH and I about when the work first began... |
On Tuesday of last week,
Brad worked there on his own in the morning...
Late morning a truck arrived and parked in the back street...
What a truck it was!
I think that the driver/operator of the truck was just checking whether the equipment would go right to the front of the property... but where was the readi-mix concrete going to come from??
I had started off by taking photos from our back yard but moved to our front veranda...
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| The truck driver opened a compartment at the back of his truck and went around spraying the inside of the compartment with a spray 'bottle'. |
Ah! This is where the cement is coming from...here's a cement truck which backed up to the back of the truck...using the zoom, you can see that compartment that I mentioned...
Now you can see that the black piping has been connected to the side of that compartment...
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| The driver operates the equipment from the control pad which is attached to a belt around his waist... |
I was taking the photos from a distance but pretty soon I would get a ringside view :-)
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The blocks are being filled with concrete via the pipe via the compartment in the back of the truck from the readymix truck. The man on the end of the wall is Robin, who is the managing director of the building firm whose project this is. He has spent a fair bit of time on the site doing 'quality control' and carrying lots of bricks!
Gradually the men worked their way to the back of the property...
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Then for a few days, the site was empty while the cement dried I guess...
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| A view over the building site from near our back door... |
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| Hello! It looks like the builders are graffiti artists too! lol |
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| Arrows and Ws... |
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| Lots of bricks stacked up at the back fence... |
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| More Ws near our side boundary... |
This week we have had a different group of 'tradies' working on the site...but that's for another post.
I was taking the photos from a distance but pretty soon I would get a ringside view :-)
Maria, I think you've found some new friends in those workmen :) I'm concerned that you're going to be 'built-out' .... hope not. Its very interesting and in years to come you'll be able to show your neighbours all these great pics of their homes being built. xox
ReplyDeleteMaria, I think you've found some new friends in those workmen :) I'm concerned that you're going to be 'built-out' .... hope not. Its very interesting and in years to come you'll be able to show your neighbours all these great pics of their homes being built. xox
ReplyDeleteI think Dorothy is right - you could make a good scrap book of the whole building process and I am sure you have learnt heaps about how these things are constructed...not sure you needed to know but..
ReplyDeleteHi Maria...these look very close to your house...will you have a view when they are finished? I hope so! Have a lovely weekend.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking the same thing as Carol.
ReplyDeleteCath @ Bits 'n Bobs
the equipment they use is quite amazing isnt it. It is very interesting keeping up to date with progress through your posts.
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