FEATURE The walls begin to take shape
I can’t quite remember when the baby arrived with respect to how far on with construction I had got, obviously my mind was rather buzzing with many things but I do remember spending a lot of time during my 2 weeks paternity leave in the garden doing things related to the aviary, whilst baby Rohan watched from his pram. Luckily we were blessed with very good weather, so not only did I get a lot of work done, I also enhanced my sun tan. The blocks started to go down and things started to take shape as well as giving a fair indication of how big things were going to be, which although I had told the wife exactly how it was going to be and showed her scale drawings, she still said it was too big and complained half her garden was gone (it might be her garden, but in 4 yrs she still hasn’t mowed the lawn!).
As can be seen in the picture, the
service corridor is taking shape nicely and the holes which will form the
entrances to each flight and the pop holes can be seen in the front wall. The perimeter wall is also clearly visible which will eventually have all the steel frame work on. The bocks were getting quite heavy by this stage and temporary scaffolding, by way of a fence panel on top of blocks had to be made to aid laying of the upper coarses. Amid learning how lay blocks and build walls, I had also been busy on the drawing board working out how much steel to order – a lot of you may think why don’t I just buy the panels already built, well, to me apart from never paying anyone for something I can do myself, if learning a new skill is part of the experience of keeping parrots, then all the better and I simply love building stuff, starting with nothing and ending up with exactly what you hoped, well sometimes. Luckily my Father works in a small engineering factory through which I was able to order as much steel as I needed. In addition I was able to borrow a stick welder to fabricate all the necessary joints. A mitre saw
As can be seen in the picture, the service corridor is taking shape nicely and the holes which will form the entrances to each flight and the pop holes can be seen in the front wall.
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