After spending the morning collecting tyres for the QEII playground and digging for clay I spent the rest of day doing some tests with the material.Yesterday I had already bought some wood and mesh to make some test panels. I’ve now made one reusable wood form that will be used for the panels.
I made tests using pure clay (found in Lesotho, and just remixed until it got soft again) on a mesh backing, one with 10% cement and one with 30% cement.
Until now the results were not very successful, but I will have to wait and see when they are completely dry. The pure one seems to be the one that is having a better chance of survival although when I mixed it in it was not the one with the best consistency.
I guess that I will have to go back to my original idea of going to see how it is really done.
The other test was more successful though! I went to the QEII and since I was the first to arrive I decided to make a test with the tyres to see if we had enough?
We had 33 tyres, big ones and small ones, and with this number it is now possible to close the playground! All the ones that we’ll get donated will be used for toys. With the test I also managed to convince them of the use of concrete.
We will then pour a thin slab that will be possible to break (with a sledge hammer) in case we need to dismantle the playground… however rumour has it that will not happen before 2009, so one more reason to use the concrete!
The meeting then went on as usual, and in the end we all agreed that it is likely that we will start on site in the next 2 weeks.
Need to place the orders for material and try and sort out all those bits that are still missing tomorrow morning.
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