And I'm mixing the first batch of concrete
Sheet metal boundary is ready!
We ended up mixing about 50 kgs. of portland cement with sand and gravel by hand (we have no quickcrete and the likes here) for the whole base wall. Unfortunately we hardly took any pictures of the building process until almost the completion of the wall.
The wall was faced with flint stone from around where we live. We did one course of stone at a time, arranging the stones in a circle with a space left between them and the sheet metal. The stones were held in place by their own weight and by securing them with little bits of stone under them. This wasn't at all easy due to the fact that they had all kinds of odd shapes.
Then concrete was poured in the space between the stones and the sheet metal and manually vibrated to allow it to reach between the stones.
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