7 April 2011 (day 22) - New off white mortar

The week start with rain, and it was too wet for people to work there. The brickers were not work on 4-6 April 2011.
And still got no response on my email about off white mortar

I also ask to remove conduit for power entering the house from bedrooms area and put them directly to garage where the subboard will be located. I will not have big cables inside the walls of bedrooms of a house that I am building. We never know the effect of radiation until suddenly we diagnosed with something deadfull.
On Wednesday, 6 April I get phone call to meet the builder at site 7 am in the morning 7 April 2011.

Went to the site, 7 April 2011,  saw the bricky start worked again but this time they use white sand.
The picture below show the different colour of off white mortar, the new one with white sand is on the right side. It is the right off white mortar. The left side is the old off white mortar. Happy with the colour now, but don't know the cost yet....

The builder arrived later, he told me in an angry voice: "you are not allowed to be here all the time". I am a bit shock, I got scoulded, this frightened me. First the office manager has a high voice to me, now the builder himself. Probably he was really angry with my complain about off white mortar.

Then he asked me which conduit that should be repositioned.  I pointed the conduit for power cable entering house and outgoing for distributed to the shed that should be put directly to the garage where the subboard located. Both of them are located at bedroom's wall, first conduit between bed 2 and bed 3 for power entering house and the second conduit is at bed 1 wall for power cable going out to the shed.
We decide to have power cable underground, both for entering the house and for redistribute to the shed.
It means the two conduits should be put directly in the garage. Frankly speaking it will costly but more safe for the health and wellbeing of the people lives in the house.
And actually the cost will not bigger if the power cable to the shed is not broke when he made the footing, It was a half way cable to the shed that has been broke. The picture below show that now there are only one cable connected to the board, as the output to the shed has been broke and dismantled by electrician as show below at the bottom picture.

 The above picture showed when the conduits have not removed to garage

That day the bricky work hard to finished all the base bricks and retaining walls. The picture below show the site is ready for concreting the retaining wall.

and the conduits has been repositioned to the garage

 

But actually the bricky missed to put bricks on one footing in the middle near the entrance to garage, so I put some bricks there to mark it, so they can pick it up and put the bricks before pouring concrete for retaining wall.



See only one cable connected to the board now.