Stand your ground

Saturday morning started out with what best could be described as the trenches of Verdun.
The rain that had come during the week made the ground all soggy.
Oh, well borrowed a small bucket from the kids and pretty quickly drained the worst.

Trenches of Verdun?

If last weekend was a drag then this was quite the opposite.
Last weeks endless hours of digging, levelling and measuring now paid off.
Within two hours I had the outer frames/floor beams in place and properly aligned.
Take the lesson good people, never do a bodge work with the foundation or else it will come back and haunt you for the rest of the build.

The rest of the weekend was spent with setting the support properly in the ground.
Assembling the rest of the frame/beams and fixing them to the supports.

Fixing the frame to the concrete supports

Also laying out the drainage to dispose of the water from the right side of the building.

Sparks in the air

 Finally arriving at this.

I did some deviations from the original ground plan (by Polhus). I added support stones to all beams as I feel that a 45x90 at a length over 4 meters requires support. I want a rigid floor that feels solid when stepping onto it.

The one with a keen eye might spot a beam that sticks out from the others. It's an additional beam I had to add as I did a small mistake. (Yes in the same manner as the sun has its spots, even I do make mistakes every now and then.)

I got the distances between the rear most beams somewhat to small as I measured them center-to-center. But apparently it should have been measured inner-to-inner. Therefore the distance between the last inner beam (third from the back) and the outer wall (double 45x90 beam) became 70 cm which is too much for a floor. 

Hence I simply added a beam in between and the problem was solved.

The "launchpad" is built, weather gods willing we shall see a take-off next week....

Title reference: Stand your ground/Villainy And Virtue/Dead To Fall