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At the end of each day I like to tidy up for a change of pace, then each morning you get to start fresh and not have to deal with yesterdays clutter.

Another day on the end of a shovel, rake and roller! Three grades of aggregate. Fine around the pipes, medium for cover then coarse for free drainage on top. Tomorrow we continue with the coarse top cover. Wish me luck 🤞!

The riser up to the tank is the flush outlet. I figured that it would be safer to have it adjacent to the tank so it won't get damaged by vehicle movement and lawnmower etc.

I had a busy day and achieved plenty. Lots of cutting, measuring and gluing of storm water pipes. Really happy with the results. Tomorrow I will fill the pipes with water to stop any movement while I fill around it with aggregate. At this stage I have capped the inlet points ready for when the...

I see that the inspector has been in overnight to ensure we maintain appropriate standards!

Time for a bit of a catch up. Yesterday was a town day, with a list a mile long. I came home with 3 brand new roller doors on a loan trailer, 6 lengths of storm water pipe and a box full of joiners with glue, hardware to apply the paint when it arrives, fresh gas bottles for the MiG and oxygen...

Concrete cutter here today. Cleaning up after boxing removal yesterday for me.

The team are putting the polish on now. Looking sharp. I realized today is exactly 6 months from the day we started excavator work on the site. The finish is coming up great and the sun is shining making the concrete 24°C when the shaded ground is only 10-11°C. I can't wait to get on the floor...

All done, now we hurry up and wait to get the power float on for the super slick finish.

7am the pump truck arrived and the crew were here to start pouring mud! Now we're are in the middle bay and still pouring. The weather is cool and clear..... perfect! School holidays gives us the opportunity to enlist junior operators too! All that hard work is disappearing! I added 8 plates...

Monday was a bust, due to a foreboding forecast of heavy rain....... didn't amount to much after all, so we could have gotten the floor poured. Tuesday's forecast was for worse...... turned out to be more accurate, so no concrete the rest of this week while the contractor has some time out to go...

A visit today from the council inspector for a pre pour inspection, all went well.... except some missing paperwork, which we soon sorted. So, we are good to go on Monday morning....... watch this space.

Another couple of busy days with the team placing mesh and reinforcement steel onto the pad. While the lads were doing that I made up some roller door recesses to reduce the chance of weather driving under the doors. The portion of the steel that is over the top of the boxing will be removed...

A busy week of boxing, leveling, straightening, compacting and hiding from the rain! With all the final fines in position and compacted. The last of the sunlight on one of the shortest winter days. Another truck loaded with mesh and associated reinforcing materials arrived this afternoon...

That's what I thought. We had a lot of rain overnight, the footings are all flooded, and it looks like we are in for more today, so maybe a physical health day today and back into the hard graft again tomorrow.

Another day on the pad is over. More moving aggregate and fines around today and driving the plate compactor to establish our concrete substrate. It seems that no sooner do we get it looking smart, then we dig it up again! This time is to insert another conduit for the hoist power supply...

Today we dug all of the boundary footings and had a tidy up around the yard with the excavator. I have also positioned the conduits for the power around the shop, they will be buried when the floor is poured.

Water tanks.

This afternoon I set about removing all the bracing, profiles, stakes and associated **** that we will no longer be needing. With the site nice and tidy and easy to navigate we can proceed tomorrow with digging the boundary footing and box up for the slab.

Big (not so big) day today! 8am the truck arrives with 4.2m³ of concrete for the pole holes. Brian from Virgin concrete was great, putting the truck exactly where we needed it for each hole so we didn't have to barrow any more than necessary. Morgan came to give me a helping hand with the...