It seems that the long wait has finally come to an end and we will both manage to keep the walls, and start building the retaining wall tomorrow.It took a lot of work to get the entire act together though now I’m confident that it will happen.
On my short site visit this morning I was happy to see that all the slabs are now broken and so as soon as the digging is completed (not long now) we’ll be able to carry on at full speed. Tomorrow we will start setting out the steels for the new retaining wall, and then we’ll take it from there.
I would just like to make a further comment on the fill, it has come to my attention that the fill being made as we are doing it now, makes the retaining wall almost redundant. This because our fill is now a solid dry construction stone wall, however it is good to know that if any pressure does occur, that will be on the new retaining wall and not the other.
When I visited the site this morning I was supposed to tell Ntate Sello and Ntate Tau that we had to wait because we still not sure if we were going to keep the walls. Sello wasn’t there so I left him a note. But the face of Tau was that of pure disappointment. I asked him not to tell the men about it, so as not to lower their moral. But fortunately that won’t happen and we’ll just carry on.
I hope that as soon as we conclude these slabs we’ll be able to move a lot faster towards completion and try and make up for the lost time.
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