This BBQ bench is in fact a solid concrete structure. It’s a specialty trade that requires a carpenter’s skill to produce and assemble the form work, a concretor’s skill for placement, and a renderer’s skill for the final burnishing. In reality, it’s done by one specialised and rather skillful tradesman.
Stay tuned for the completion of this “link room” which is an addition to a previously completed project in Fitzroy. The fellow with his back to the camera is filling, and polishing the new slab and upstands. It’s a specialised field and this process will take four to five days for that small area pictured.
The journey of the concrete column. What looks like a simple concrete column is anything but! Integrated within are structural steel columns, down pipes, overflows, stainless steel sumps and termite protection would you believe. Internal bracing was added to prevent the inner tubes from compressing and external bracing to prevent unwanted movement, deformation and maintaining plumb.
Today we conducted a “blower door test” at our Princes Hill Project. The aim was to achieve a Gold Standard of air tightness with a level of 2.0 ACH ( air changes per hour ) @50 pascals. We primarily used an external wrap from Proclima with their associated tapes and gaskets along with our own innovations to maintain a seal. We were more than pleased when we exceeded the gold standard with a result of 1.74 ACH@50pa . This will improve again after we apply plaster lining inside. Well done to Anthony and Nick who have been working on this for some months now.
