Friday 22nd June 2012 / 09:19
The great day has come when we lay the new concrete floor. William’s sent Orion and Gary round and there’s Trev and myself to help. Trev couldn’t wait to destroy what was remaining of the bit where the toilet was.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 10:14
Gary uses the Whacker Plate to compress the base.
Concrete floor
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.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 13:14
Top layer is put on top of the mesh, leveled and smoothed with a float.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 16:03
Only a small amount left to do now.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 18:11
The pipe for the toilet to plug into is now surrounded by lovely concrete.