Today was a great success. Thanks to the generous donation of Sanyati Construction of a bobcat and a roller, for the day, the difficult and time consuming tasks of compacting earth and levelling were completed quickly. The project is beginning to take shape and the slab is ready to be cast tomorrow morning..jpg)
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The first task of the day, was propping up the steel structure so that it was level with the foundation walls.The brittle existing slab which initially was meant just to be chipped, was instead broken up into small pieces, and reused as a substrate.The bobcat moved soil into the foundation walls, where after it was levelled by hand with spades and rakes, and compacted by the roller.
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Walter, the roller operator his colleagues and the community helped us set out the pegs for the paving excavation, grading and compacting it,so that stormwater does not dam in the centre.
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The post boxes were moved to their final positions made level, and supported by concrete lintels.All that is left to complete is to treat the soil, so that grass does not grow, but otherwise the site is ready for the next step tomorrow morning