I started the building of this wall a few months ago and I’ve only just more or less finished it. I still have to plant a few plants and finish the storm water.

Mick said that if I have a big piece of white stormwater pipe that you can see in the picture it will attract too much attention, which I think is true. The stormwater is supposed to go into the drains but this has never been the case with this outlet, however now that I have made this nice new wall then council workers might get a bit suspicious and so tomorrow I shall go to plan B to divert the run off towards the park along with all the other houses that do the same.

It’s taken me quite some time because it’s been difficult to dig the holes due to the black soil which is so sticky when it gets wet and the weather has not been dry enough over the last few months. The last two weeks have been fairly dry which allowed me to dig the post holes. I have four posts, each one about 600mm deep by 350mm square. Three holes took 60kg of rapid set and the last one took 80kg.

I also used 7 lengths of treated pine @3000mm long along with one box of bugal head screws. I think it’s turned out well and I hope that it works and helps protect the shed from further damage. Over the next few months I will continue to work on shoring up other parts of the wall as well as to try and under pin the shed. That will have to wait of course because I’m going home on Sunday for a month.