Friday 22nd June 2012 / 12:10
Trev and I are tasked with ‘knocking up’ which means mixing the concrete. It’s four shovels of sand and gravel to one of cement. You can get three batches like that in the cement mixer at a time. It’s quite hard work shoveling off the back of the lorry.
We fill a wheel barrow with wet concrete and it gets wheeled in through the front door over wooden boards through the house and then poured in wherever Orion says it should go.
About a third of the final thickness of concrete is put down and then the reinforcing mesh is laid over the top.