Building Apollo Studio (Part 10)

Last week a lot has happened here. On Monday the foundation was hardened. And they could continue the work. A wall was constructed under the foundation of our existing part of the house. It will hold the ground under the foundation in place and between this wall and the wall of the basement there will be a layer of isolation material. They filled up the space behind this wall with the sand you see in the container. It is a nice feeling to know that no more ground can fall from under the house anymore.

After this they started to build a steel wire construction for the walls. At first we though the wall would come pre-constructed but this not the case. They will make these walls on the spot from concrete just like the foundation. The steel construction will be inside the walls to strengthen the whole construction. It now even gives a better idea about how big the new studio will be. It looks promising :) I'm already imagining what will go where :) The door seems to come on another spot than I put it in my 3D drawings, but I think it is even better where it is now.

Unfortunately on Friday we had a major setback. We had very bad wheather here in The Netherlands with lots of heavy rain. That caused a lot of clay to come down again on the sides of the hole. We had that before, but now it damaged the whole steel construction as you can see in the picture. Today 4 guys were busy to dig this clay out manually. They were not very happy about his and neither are we. This will mean further delay. I hope they can repair the steel construction on Monday and still start with the walls. We can only hope now not more clay will come down. I will be happy when the walls are ready that we wont be bothered by these kind of problems any more. Well we will see next week :)