Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes the green shoots of a rear wing are starting to rise from the sand pad as a recently delivered pile of concrete blocks are turned in to the footings!!
Early last week I reported on the concrete pour into the trenches that marked out the walls of our new rear wing. The concrete job was done-and-dusted* by close of business last Tuesday leaving way clear for the brickies* to get to work laying concrete blocks as the base of the rear wing’s walls. The blocks will be built up to the level of the floor where they will provide a strong base for the metal work that will frame the walls of the new building but before that happens the building’s drains will be laid and then, to my great joy, it will be concrete pouring time again as the rear wing’s concrete pad is constructed. As the rear wing starts to grow work beside N. Witchduck Road is also ongoing with old pipe work being removed from under the car park, the storm-water drains being dug, the footprint of the new storm-waters marked on the ground and the beginnings of the new entrance to the ODEC campus. It has been a busy week on the ODEC building site with the promise of much more in the coming week, in the meantime stay safe and stay healthy, David Beach. Colloquial English Translations: * done-and-dusted: completely finished * brickies: bricklayers
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Gretchen
7/1/2020 12:08:59 pm
Love the blog, but especially love the translations. :) Well done, you!
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diane m miller
7/8/2020 12:28:21 pm
Thanks David, for your wonderfully humerous descriptions!
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AuthorDavid Beach is our Building Project Manager, and has been an active part of our parish family for more than a decade. He is retired from NATO and the British Army and is a joy and blessing to all of us. Archives
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