Do not be scared by the picture!This fire started today behind the Sentebale office, but thanks to Patricia’s sharp eye, we were able to put it out (nearly 1,5 hours later) before it reached our fence. However the title of today’s blog does not refer to this but to another not unusual but annoying event!
It is not the first second or third time that I get a no show by the contractor! (I waited all day, called about 3 times and still ziltch)!
No wonder work does not progress at the right rhythm, but I honestly don’t know what I can do to make him work better!
On site, which I visited just before it closed, work was slowly on its way with not much progress being noticed between yesterday and today. Met the electrician and decided to change a few plug positions in order to make the building phases more efficient.
Also in order to make things more efficient and less time consuming I have decided to cut down the number of decorative panels. Now they will only be fitted on the two long walls, simplifying the fixings and also making it less expensive.
One of my tests finally survived, and although it was the one made of simple clay (commercial) with mesh on the inside I’m happy that I now have a formula that works. I will try and come up with a refined mixture using local clay (crushed) so that we can make the panels virtually costless.
The reason why some of the other panels just cracked was the fact that when clay dries out it shrinks and harder backings would not allow it to shrink naturally thus causing it to crack! It is in fact unbelievable how much they actually shrink: the sample was 295 and shrunk down to 280. I will need to measure on site and then make the fixings in such a way that they can absorb these (possibly different) shrinkages.
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