timber...

This what I have being doing for most of the year, apart from recovering from a broken marriage. For obvious reasons I have left my previous vocation-house husband-and ventured out into some sort of paid employment. I have been the labourer for a friend who took long service leave, and leave of his senses, to demolish the rear of his house, and rebuild it. Demolition took a week as it was hot, work was all by hand, and the section of the house was held together by a large number of nails. There was a dead possum in the ceiling space-if fell on someone's head-and a lot of filth accumulated over the last 30 years. This shot shows the result of the demolition: half a house.
We then built the form work for the waffle slab he was laying. Note the leaning birch over the side fence.
The sab is ready for concrete. 100m2, about 15 cubic metres.

Freshly poured and finished. The concreters did the levelling and smoothing by hand and eye.

Sometime later the framework is up. The birch is still leaning. Next post.....