Yet more forms

Preparations for pouring the concrete for the basement walls are underway, with lots of form building all week through today. Tomorrow we’re off to the city for concrete ties and rebar (and olive oil, golden raisins, nuts, and lovely round loaves at the Italian Centre supermarket), to be ready for pouring the concrete early next week.

The round structure is the tower — we’re building a Victorian style farmhouse with a turret (which beyond the basement will run through the living room on the first floor and the master bedroom on the second floor), and Tom is using parts of an old grainery for the turret’s forms. With any luck, next Christmas the house will be finished and the Christmas tree will go in the living room’s turret space…

The turret area (below) before the forms were set up,

In between the forms,

In between more forms,

Turret forms moving into place,

Welding the seams for the turret forms,

My father-in-law, a retired builder, at top left supervising,

The sun sets before 4:30 now, which is why the following shots look rather dark,

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