Category: Terrace

The overall game plan for the terrace and around the pool is to get the areas ready for concreting. This means installing all the drainage, electrics etc and raising to … Read More

It doesn’t look much in this photo but I found time to start backfilling behind one of the pool walls. The grey stones are about 40 cms deep and it took … Read More

After the footings were laid it was just a simple matter of laying about 160 blocks! Most of the walls built are only single block, with just one corner being … Read More

To define the edge of the terracing around the pool we had to dig about 40 metres of footings! The digger helped with about 30 metres of it in about … Read More

Unfortuantely there is no ‘before’ picture here. The supports for the vine were being held up on a couple of pieces of thin tree branch. This needed replacing with something … Read More

Ben completed the installation of the railings and we cleaned and started painting them. We had bought the Hammerite MetalMaster spray paint gun that is meant to give a 360 … Read More

With my back playing up I was of little help to Alan as he designed and built the central set of steps from the house down to the terrace. Alan … Read More

The terrace was transformed today by the fitting of the railings and we are pleased with the results, for some reason they make the terrace seem even bigger. Still work … Read More

Ben had installed the steel supporting posts for the terrace railings and my job was to fit the coping stones before the railings are installed. All well and good but … Read More