A visit to the ecofab factory in Bodmin reveals stacks and stacks of numbered panels. They house will hopefully go together in the planned order, so they are made in the order that they can come out of the factory and go to site.

In the above photo you can see a compressed cube of sheep wool that is put inside all of the boxes. There are bundles of this in the corner:

a few bits of which made it to my car (with permission):

It’s a “waste” product from sheep leather for high end cars (Bentley cars included, apparently), so it depends on what the wool was for as to whether it is white, another natural colour or dyed. Apparently a chunk of the wool bundles come from “Eastern Counties” (name of the firm I think).

The above floor / roof panel has horizontal bracing.

Wall panels have tick vertical boards and mesh across to prevent it all falling and bulking to the bottom.

The panels have different materials, such as bit-rock (for under the building to prevent rodent attack), the OSB 3 board (the main wooden sheets), cement board or 18mm structural ply.

The panel below is box 201, which will be the SE corner of the lounge at the south of the building.

Shuttering on the lower section, where the retaining wall is at full height, has come down. Leaving a wood board imprint on the concrete:

The pick on the digger has broken apart the rest of the wall and footing for the wall to the Ramoth courtyard.

By lunch time it was all taken away from the site:

The retaining wall looks solid:

When the old garage for Silver Spray was taken down and the site dug out for the new garage, this went into the neighbouring Kiephuis property.

– they OK’d this (the neighbours on both sites have been amazing).

The dig out exposed that they had an old, copper mains water pipe from the street stopcock. So before it was re-buried this was replaced with a modern plastic water pipe:

The under ground foot to the wall between Silver Spray and Ramoth is longer than hoped. So Graham and Sam are doing to jack hammer break it up, in order to take the wall down.

The wall just past the courtyard wall, southwards, has had footing and column of blocks put under it. The edge of the courtyard retaining wall has also been cut into, so that when it’s pulled down, the Ramoth rear section is left OK.

Footing:

Supporting block work column:

Silver Spray dug out trench to help the wall come down:

Ramoth side courtyard tiles come up to get down to the footing for the retaining wall:

By the end of Friday the wall was over, but still in one piece. A pecker bit for the digger will be on-site on Monday afternoon to break it up: