24 July 2010

My mum has been over today to help me while I am digging the footings - need someone to man (or woman) the wheelbarrow!

As a measurement guide I am going to be using a single skim of 100mm (4") blocks as a base for the bungalow and as a general rule of thumb when your setting out footings allow 100mm to either side of your planned building materials - for me its 100mm for the blocks plus 100mm either side so the footings need to be 300mm width in total - thats 12" (and I mean a proper 12" and not what I tell the ladies)

The governement have guidelines on depths of footings - for some reason they never seem deep enough so I always add a third (just to allow for fluctuations in depth as its being hand dug) - the recommeneded depth is 300mm so I will be laying them around 450mm (18")


More digging tomorrow - yipppeeeee