Concrete and more concrete

Building Inspector Mike Nuttall (the one nearest the camera, with the clean shoes) was there bright and early to ensure the job could proceed today.













By mid morning concrete lorries were queueing up.











Yesterday's reinforcement cages are filling up.  The vertical bars indicate the location of the retaining walls and the back of the annex. Richard (The Stig) Kilburn still has his back to the camera but promises to reveal all when the TV people are here next Wednesday.










Kilburn and Johnson appreciate that it pays to advertise so have invested in two sign boards for the site.











Useful meetings today with representatives of Polyroof and Evo Lifts.

The annex should be receive its roof quite soon. The roof inside the tank is a bit unusual in that we are putting a roof over an existing exceedingly water tight roof.

The lift will be among the very last items to be fitted but it was important for us to have assurance at this stage that the holes in the floors through which the lift shaft will go fulfil the requirements. We think that on the ground floor the free standing lift shaft will be as unobtrusive as we can make it. On the very high first floor we hope that the lift will run in a glazed shaft - if we can afford that indulgence.