A ‘before’ photo, but not the clearest.
Another project achieved since leaving work at Struan was the removing of a shrubbery that can be seen on the right in the first photo, behind the pergola and then the building of a carport there.
Preparation for the carport slab.
This was done in February and March of 2012. It required the removal of a number of shrubs and then taking out enough soil to give a good depth of base to the concrete slab for the carport. I removed enough soil to allow for 100 mm of limestone scalps as a base to the 90 mm thick concrete slab.
The slab ready to go through the curing process
Once the concrete slab had been poured it took some time for it to cure. Concrete is best kept damp for a few days at least, this slows the curing process and it is less likely to crack done this way.
The carport structure starts to come together.
Once the concrete had cured enough to work on it I was able to start putting the carport together. I had bought the carport in kit form which then required some 60 x 10 mm holes drilled so that it could be put together. Some of the holes had been pre-drilled but not all of them. The only help I needed was to stand each pair of post upright and then while I put extra bolts in to hold them square with the frame. The rest I was able to do on my own.
And after, the finished carport
Then the finished project, before the modular rain water tank went in, looked like this.
David
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