5th blog and Mike gets to meet a bungeroosh wall

We now have some oval conduit and metal boxes on site. 

Bilby and I attempted to get two cables though a 20mm oval conduit for a drop to a powerpoint. It was a real struggle, so we then decided we would put only one cable in one conduit.

We started to cut a recess in the plaster for the first metal box. It was easy to cut away the soft lime plaster, then we met our first flint in the bungeroosh wall. We set the box in as deep as we could. Bilby then cut out a groove for the oval conduit drops to be fixed in the groove next week.

With a long drill bit we managed to drill a pilot hole though the wall for the box going back-to-back with the first box. The wall was very soft in some places, while in other places we hit hard flints and stones. Drilling and chiselling from both sides, finaly made a hole for a conduit to pass though. The wall was approx. 300mm thick. The second box was cut into plaster more easily. We will replaster and do the final fix of both boxes and conduits next week.