Building up the walls

The damp proof course with solid black engineering brick is now ready and will stay visible.

The foundation trench is filled with excavated soil and the inside of the ellipse is covered with MOT Type 1 aggregate. All spoil is removed with grab loads.

Steve and Will continue to build up the wall with standard bricks. Their main problem will be to keep the curve the same as is set out for the first course. They have to keep checking with the spirit level and which slows it all down but at least it should keep things straight …

I’m working on a video that shows all this but then speeded up.