Up go the walls - Interlocking soil stabilised blocks - made by hand pressed block machine

damp proof course laid over cement blinder which tops and levels foundation - a rough binder is laid over sheet - mixture of  4 wheel barrow of small sand : 2 wheel barrows of big sand : 5 buckets of saw dust : 5 buckets of cement
- replacing half the usual cement with saw dust

over 1000 blocks made - first three batches are dried and cured and ready for construction
testing various mixes with clay, limestone, cement, dark orange earth and saw dust

stone foundation topped with a wrought cement blinder create uniform level - for ISSB wall to be built on - masonry column reinforce corners

plastic damp proof membrane laid beneath course on top of wrought cement blinder, which tops and levels stone foundation - cement mortar binds first four courses of blocks into place - course above 5 will be bound with smooth clay mortar.

old to new technology - wattle and daube construction behind ISSB on stone foundations in the for ground

short elevation south  has three masonry columns - marked out and measure diagonals to unsure squareness

rope lines pined between blocks with nails to give guides for straight block laying

masonry column interlocked into wall to give lateral stability in the wall

and suddenly the rain arrives .... work stops and the heavens open!