… day for doing the washing. Loads of wind, a bright hot sunny day and plenty of hot water in the home-made 12-volt immersion heater that I use as a dump load for the excess solar energy.
And if I hadn’t have been so preoccupied I would have done a load too.
However, this afternoon I was back up the wall again.
6 large buckets went into it today, but again it doesn’t look too much like it as it’s all disappearing into the interior.
And I glanced into a hole from where a stone fell out (that’s another problem that I’m having) and the front layer is a good two or three inches away from the rear layer, with a gaping hole between them.
Rhys suggests demolishing the outer layer and rebuilding it, and that’s an idea that I haven’t yet discounted.
But it involves spending much more time on the neighbour’s land, fixing a scaffolding on his property, and also loads of time and loads of skill, neither of which I have
But I tell you one thing.
When I carried out the emergency repair on the long side after it collapsed I infilled the top of the wall with ferro-cement and then with concrete and when I rebuilt the top of the back wall (the one where I’m working now) I infilled the top of that with concrete too.
And I’m glad that I did because that ought to hold together even if part of the underneath should happen to fall down
But I’m glad that I’m doing it now. It wouldn’t have lasted for too much longer.
