We spent all morning preparing for resleepering, however there wasn’t enough of us to make any significant start on changing any, however we’re well prepared for Thursday.
We did however have enough hands to complete the platform rebuilding works, the majority of this occurred on Monday, however the final touches were placed on it today.
We used a Lime Mortar, as it had been previously, except it turns out this isn’t the first repair here, as quite an amount of cement mortar was found in places and that is likely what caused it to fall apart, we just gave it a helping hand, however the historical patch has certainly damaged a few bricks. We’ve repaired what we could, one day and probably with a lot of money it will need to be pulled right back to ground level and rebuilt in this corner – it’s very likely there is little to foundation left.
The funny coping stone angles are no actually from our repair, they were like that previously, we didn’t gave a lot of scope to modify that unfortunately but it’s at least as good as before and hopefully better.
Once the mortar has properly hardened, likely to be a few weeks, we can give it all a proper clean up.
Various other odd jobs were tended to also, which was nice, however it’ll mean we’ve got a few big days Thursday and Friday to ensure we can complete the resleepering this year. Meeting Maldon 8am on Thursday.
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