Yesterday was all about cement. The lads spent the whole day mixing and spreading cement as the new foundation. About the only building adage I know is "3 of sand to 1 of cement", but it never mentioned the water. While I watched, they started with about 3 gallons of water, then 1 sack of cement, followed by about 30 shovels of sand. I was thinking that 10 shovels must equate to one sack, but then they threw my calculations by adding a few shovels more when it was almost mixed.
No matter, Pedro brought some tubing to put the cable in and reconnected it all - before burying it under a couple of tons of cement. The tube part of it should enable us(?) to get at the cable in the future should we need to - and that might be important as we weren´t in a position to test it, other than for me to note that the right hand gate-pillar light still didn´t work.
Today we (ownership) have put the edging stones along the gash in the lawn and even started to put down some of the patio tiles. I also had a ´phone call from my pal to tell me that he had in his possession a cistern for me to try to fit in my bathroom. Only been waiing for that for a month, so am not rushing for flushing.
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