31st May 2014
Arriving on site, we immediately added more to the internal floor level and began to tamper down. We then read the best way to get an even fill in the first layer of earth bags, and began filling them. Learning from yesterday we used on continuous bag which is slower and takes more preparation but, as we found, gets a fair more even result. We had a lovely BBQ lunch and then once the geometry of the formwork was finished, we could design the entrance, work out and place its structural bags. A tyre foundation was laid at the threshold which meant one team had to learn a special method of tyre tamping. We also experimented a lot in which way was best to get the neatest and squarest corners, before tampering the whole first layer of earth bags. Whilst progress was slower than yesterday, with fewer numbers, being more precise and deliberating methods should pay off in the long run both in terms of quality and time.
