T-Brick Shed: Eighth and Ninth Course Completed

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Over the past couple of weeks I've received lots of parental and spousal support to push the wall past the halfway point. From now on there are more courses behind us than ahead. Yay!
I left the walls uncovered during the week and the seventh course dried up quite nicely.

My drier mix caused the corners to be a bit crumbly.

The eight course is another dead man layer so I spent a while cutting up scrap wood for assembly

We're going to start our bottle block window on course ten so my Dad got to work making some bottle blocks with the diamond wet saw.

First cut was a success

Those aren't all mine. I swear

Dead men assembled

I put a few bottle blocks in the eighth course to experiment. We'll have to figure out how to make them longer.
Jean and the parents hard at work on the eight course


The parentals having a date night

With the eighth course complete the time has come to trim those limbs hanging over the work site



Wrapping up the ninth course

Laying out the first level of the bottle window



Comments

Colin said…
Impressive. You are going to need scaffolding! My civil engineer relatives all said packing down the dirt is key. You'll (or Y'all) need something to get up high and get downward pressure. Presumably a wet mix could be unstable at height, but I would suspect that slow drying out is the best option rather than a dry mix, but I know nothing (true I do actually know nothing).
4 February 2016 at 13:03
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