Day 1: Where to start?!
Fortunately, the datum point was already set, as the owner had set it last summer, along with starting to dig a trench, but this has partially refilled with soil.
So today involved moving some big heavy edging stones from round the top end of the lawn, cutting a nice curve in the lawn to match that of the blocks that will be used as the trackbed, removing the turf, knocking some pegs in to set a level and form a line to show where the front of the blocks will be positioned. Oh, and then started to dig the trench for the hardcore, mortar and thermalite blocks.
And heres some piccies of where I am doing the work. The first 3 images are a kind of pan from left to right looking up the garden from the house round to looking across the back of the house. The area I am currently working on is in the top corner shown in the 2nd picture.
This image shows the are by the end of Day 1. The pegs have all ben levelled and represent the top level of the blocks. Rond the back of the tree is a looop and this is the only section of line that doesn't conform to the 10ft min radius, but this is not part of the main running line!!!
This piccy is taken from the back lookin back towards the house. The lines on the pegs are ther to show the level to which the hardcore needs filling up (bottom line) and the othe line (about 1/2 inch up) is the bottom of the block. The bit in between will be the mortar level.
Tomorrows jobs include removal of the reddy green bush on the left of the 4th pic as it is in the way! more pegs then need to be positioned and the trench dug the rest of the way around the curve! Once the front trench has been completed, the rear trench needs some attention.
Maybe this should have its own thread!?!
