EnglishRebels build thread
Part 4
Construction (well demolition really)
Now let me tell you about North Carolina red clay – it’s almost as hard as concrete. I had to dig down about two feet and it took a good three hours of sweating and swearing. I finally broke out my bulldog SRS hammer drill to break up the clay.
Anyway I finally got it dug out and the USPlastics 18”x12”x24” plastic tank installed.
The next project to tackle was removing one of the windows and cutting out the brick and block wall below to allow for a door to be installed. This is the window looking from my shop. The 4” ductwork is for my dust collection system and that would have to be relocated over the top.
I started to remove the brick with a hammer and chisel after saw cutting with a diamond blade.
After about an hour and a half I was this far. Now we have a saying in England when things were not turning out as we expected. It goes: ‘Bugger this for a game of soldiers’ which loosely translates to ‘scr*w this’. It’s as understandable to most Americans as ‘Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs’ which we would say in place of ‘no kidding’.
Which reminds me of Cockney rhyming slang:
Trouble (as in trouble and strife) – wife.
Whistle (as in whistle and flute) – suit.
Apples (as in apples and pears) – stairs.
Anyway, I digress from the job in hand which is to cut out for the door.
I finally gave up and make a trip to Lowes to rent an electric hammer. It took about 30 minutes to get to this:
Stay tuned dear reefers. Demolition is over, on to construction.