Lab Build: Day 2 - 17/03/17

First thing in the morning was the delivery of the bricks and concrete blocks. Digging continued all day and the footings were nearly complete. At 2 o'clock I then decided to start the laborious task of carting all the soil from the garden to the skip. My friends were going to help me but didn't turn up at the agreed time so I became a one man work force. To make matters worse, all the wheelbarrows were in use by the builders so I had only a bucket to carry the soil in.

(Sorry for bad lighting, didn't get a chance to take a picture during daylight hours)

Things took a turn for the better though as my friends eventually turned up with wheelbarrows and as the builder got off at around 4, we could use theirs and their better shovels.

We continued for as long as we could until the skip was full enough that its door needed closing. This gave us load more room for soil but made it very difficult to empty the wheelbarrows into it. We fixed this by creating a large ramp using some of the concrete blocks that arrived in the morning as well as the doors from the old shed.

We pressed on even though it felt as if are limbs were about to fall off until it got dark. Knowing how big the job was encouraged us to get as much done in the time we had available so it was time to get out the extension cables and set up lamps. My friend made the job much easier as he rushed back to his house to grab his work lights. 

Eventually we filled the skip to a point where no more soil could fit in it so we had a rest, grabbed a KFC and called it a day. My friends left and I dismantled the ramp so our cars could get back on the drive. By the time all the extension cables were back inside and everything was packed away it was 10 o'clock; we had been lugging soil for nearly 8 hours. 

Just another 2 skips to go and we will be done.

As the skip doesn't get emptied until Tuesday, no more soil work can be done.