There's a crack, a crack, in everything....

19 November 2014

...that's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen)

Not any more, though. In an overnight missive from Tom, he explains how they repaired that pesky crack, and strengthened the wall:

"The crack I showed you had stones cemented in place on the outside where possible to hold the concrete in place, and then when the concrete was poured we opened up the crack at the top and poured concrete down. The other method we used here was to stitch the crack with reinforced steel rods placed horizontally across the crack, in the same way that you would stitch a cut, this steel bar will not be seen as it’s in the middle of the wall. It wasn’t straight-forward to do, so there may be some more making (Ed. 'good') to do once the shuttering comes off."

So, now you know.