Contrast

17th May 2012

This week saw a contrast both in weather and work.
The Coniston site very quickly turned into a mire as the heavens opened on Thursday, the river rose a couple of feet in 24 hrs and left me thinking how lucky we had been with the foundation work too the bridge. 
Another week later would have made conditions near impossible .
The U Beams for the bridge deck are now in place ,our site joiners Sam and Dan have begun the task of ply shuttering to the underside of the bridge and our experienced hands Pete and Andy have begun the task of reinforced steel fixing to the deck in readiness for the concrete pour. Large boulders from the excavations where also added along both sides of the bridge at the base to provide protection to the concrete during bouts of heavy rain inducing smaller stone movement.







Demolition started on the Grizebeck job in readiness for a new extension to a lovely 18th Century farm house. many features and character will be added to the property with their own ideas and hopefully ours too. pictures will follow over the weeks to come.
Mill Gate saw the near completion of the new path,part completion of the curved retaining wall for the perimeter of  the new pond and other borders including the wisteria border to form an archway  through onto the newly formed steps into the woodland,a covering of top soil to the reinstated areas around the path including seeding the play area banking with wild meadow flowers .
all told.a good weeks work really.
See you next week.with more garden walls built,setting out of the new Coniston house and excavations to the Grizebeck extension.
until then BFN.

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