Morning all,
A slower day or two on site with the contractor continuing to do concrete, though at a slightly slower pace. We’re hoping he’ll get all the wall sections done before he goes, leaving the only foundation concrete work to be done in the abattoir. Yesterday we poured about
The contractor has let go of a few more guys as well but to be honest, it’s not that big a problem as long as he buggers off completely next Monday.
Obviously we all miss Stan and Lindsay terribly but are struggling along without them.
In fact, as a mark of their respect for the boys, their team has done a huge amount of work backfilling trenches, excavating for laterals and digging out the underfloor ventilation lines.
Instead of the separate trenches which we’d started doing, we’re now going to excavate the whole area to ensure we have 200mm of no fines under all the base slabs.
We have “No fines” aggregate delivered and ready to back fill these.
Actually now I think of it, a more accurate description of this material might be “some fines but not as many as the concrete aggregate after its been screened”.
Our onsite supervision crew are doing a sterling job as usual. See supervision photo
From left to right, sitting down are the controllers rep and also currently helping out the contractor since their supervisor left.
Lab guy- holder of bags, carrier of cylinders
Main lab guy- maker of cylinders and do-er of slump tests.
Obviously they are intently monitoring the concrete pour taking place in the background of the photo.
I now have the locally produced drawings etc for the accommodation block in hard copy and on a memory stick. Not sure what software they’ve used (.pln) but I can’t open so it would be good if someone could please hunt for a free package to view it as well.
Sorry what was that?
Didn’t quite catch you?
Ah, Dave and Sarah, thanks for offering to do that for me!
The final toolbox talk and thank you to the guys who are left went down very well, but not as well as the free pre-prayer lunch afterwards.
As you know, the Shoat was knocked on the head and our corporate catering provider did rice/veggies etc.
See photos of madam and also smileyboy (one of our best workers) tucking in to a piece of Geep.
We are now the proud owners of a Shashlik stand (AKA charcoal bbq).
John has been organising this for a week or so with bits of rebar and spare steel and we had its first demonstration on Wednesday. Unfortunately the meat the chef bought was rubbish so the finished product was a little like chewing a piece of towel. We’ll try again some other time.
Malcolm Brendon and Ash, our Waikato team of expert chippies and placers arrived last night and brought a whole load of much needed gear with them.
They also accidentally brought a single bottle of Waikato draught but I don’t see this going too far once we’ve shared it out among the 6 of us.
Brendon made a comment last night at the airport about how warm it was.
At 2:30am when they arrived I was actually a bit chilly- boy have they got a surprise coming to them.
We’ll start them off gently with a short day today, a day off tomorrow then into the full time regime on Monday.
Their 10 bedroom corporate luxury no expenses spared villa, as expected, is far from ready (in spite of being told everything was done last night) so they’ll be staying in Stan and Lindsay’s temporarily.
Just don’t tell Stan though- id never hear the last of it!
That’s all for now,
Me
