Post #669616 by komohana on Sun, Mar 3, 2013 7:22 PM

aloha crew,

well, in the immortal words of dale kerrigan - i dug a hole...

several in fact, being for the footings on which to build the bar, at last!!

so what? you might say. well, the ground is almost like bloody concrete here in summer,
being clay/gravel, in fact there was a pit close-by where they dug clay to make house bricks,
and we've been having a few warm days...

(inside the shed)

at least my mate had a little sense, i just wish the lagoon was big enough for two.

anyhow, why i mentioned the make-up of the ground here... i like to call the back yard - satans' anvil,
on account of it being so hot and hard, where all but the most hardy plants wither and die... is because
i stabilised some of it with cement and layed a dirt floor for the bar, kind of like rammed earth.

progress shot...

and a couple of pictures of the interior...

initially i wasn't going to put any windows in the side wall but ended up making a couple openings to let
the doctor in - the sea breeze here is known as the fremantle doctor - but they'll be more like hatches than
windows - solid with no glass.
in the last photo, the door-way can be seen, and an opening for a roller shutter.

the lining of the walls is well under way and not much of the bamboo ply will be seen after tapa etc. is applied.
the ceiling is hessian, or as the americans say - burlap.

also in the last picture, it can be seen that my album covers around the circular clock have fallen off due to the
heat radiating through the wall, this is now cured as the bar shades that area.

more soon friends, bob.