Saturday 22 September 2012
We were back in Nidri for Friday. Dave's brother Pete, the one who survived the tornado last September 20th, has bought a boat to live on, with his wife Edna, and was bringing it back from France over the last couple of weeks. He arrived on Regatta Thursday, the anniversary of the storm, and the only day we were too busy to go and meet him and escort him home from the lighthouse.
So on Friday we met up and had a meal and didn't get home until after dark. So we were most surprised to be woken on Saturday morning by the arrival of Constantine with Yianni the woodworker, and to find that we had received a delivery of wood while away, that we hadn't noticed in the dark.
Yianni and Constantine leapt into action, while Dave and I drifted about rather aimlessly, unable to get on with our ditch or wall for fear of getting in the way.
We were back in Nidri for Friday. Dave's brother Pete, the one who survived the tornado last September 20th, has bought a boat to live on, with his wife Edna, and was bringing it back from France over the last couple of weeks. He arrived on Regatta Thursday, the anniversary of the storm, and the only day we were too busy to go and meet him and escort him home from the lighthouse.
So on Friday we met up and had a meal and didn't get home until after dark. So we were most surprised to be woken on Saturday morning by the arrival of Constantine with Yianni the woodworker, and to find that we had received a delivery of wood while away, that we hadn't noticed in the dark.
Yianni and Constantine leapt into action, while Dave and I drifted about rather aimlessly, unable to get on with our ditch or wall for fear of getting in the way.
The wood was for the top of the plinth, and is screwed down with threaded bar, which is inserted into drilled holes with epoxy resin dribbled into them. Not very eco, but necessary to meet the earthquake safety regs. This then had to be left to go off before any more frame can be built.
The photo above and second below show the wood spanning the rounded corners of concrete. We had a choice here whether to cut short pieces to make a better fit, or go with the cut corner, and make the frame open so that the room will extend through it into the rounded corner, like an alcove. We decided on the latter - hope it was the right choice.
The top of this base layer of wood will be the internal floor level.
When the morning shift had departed, Dave got on with the drainage ditch, drilling holes in the pipe, and measuring it for cutting.
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