Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
Interesting, I skimmed the video to see the important bits. Their one is in ground, and I notice towards the end of the video they are showing the chunks being quite brittle, which probably isn’t an issue when it’s in the ground. You mentioned it needs to be higher than the ground level so the door can open, do you have an edge to it or are you risking having the edges crumble?
You got caught out by skimming the video 😝
He says he underestimated thinking that experimental piece with a higher ratio would be fully hardened in 3 days.
Concrete/cement usually takes weeks to months to fully cure to it’s full strength. In any case the lower side of mine has an edge and I’ve actually made it slightly larger than I need. I think it should be OK, It’s not like it’s going to have cars or foot traffic on it just mainly storing things.
I think I will get some crumbling at the edges as it was hard to mix there. I’ve removed the wooden form I used and it’s holding together for now.
Ah haha I guess I didn’t see all the important bits 😅
It makes sense it would be harder to mix at the edges, hopefully it does the job anyway.
My plan is to have things on either side of it, so maybe I’ll back fill the gaps with gravel or put some bricks around it to help it out just in case. 😅
Not a bad idea. I guess it depends on how the ground is shaped around it, you don’t want chunks falling off when you clip it with the mower trying to mow the grass at the edge. But you tell me it won’t be that brittle so maybe it will be fine once cured 🙂