On November 30th Sarah and I had a meeting with Andy Sheppard, Head of the building team. He had predicted the reservations expressed by the metal worker over the height of the chimney and suggested that the footings for the kiln should be a minimum of 1 cubic metre of concrete. This is something we will have to clear with Green Estates as a matter of safety and insurance.
Andy was extremely helpful in his experienced assessment of every stage of the kiln building. He is confident that we will be able to save money by using normal bricks for some of the arches instead of tapered bricks, also by replacing some of the brick section of chimney with a longer metal section.
We did a breakdown of the kiln building; what we could reasonably hope to achieve in a day. Andy indicated that if we could wait until the Spring it may be possible to co ordinate an intensive week-long building programme instead of single days here and there. Although this would put back the realisation of our project once more, it does mean that we could possibly run the event as an educational course on similar lines to the one at Keshcemet.
This was a productive meeting and we now have several questions, which we need answered at next weeks programming meeting.
