Concreting the living room floor

The next job was to concrete the living room floor.
We ordered 20 tons of MOT 1 sub floor and laid it out and whacked it down. We used the laser level to get the levels right.  John and James helped to sort this  out- 100 wheelbarrows of sub base.
We laid the visqueen on a bed of sand and then ordered nearly 5 cubes of concrete to provide a 100mm  floor.
John, Jonny, Jen and me did the job, concrete form Porthmadog concrete. We were probably one person short, but we will managed.  Two barrow wheels got punctures which didn't help!
Tamping was hard work and maybe we needed to think of a better tamping method.
The lorry driver gave us 8/10 which was heartening.

 20 tons of hardcore

 Getting to floor level- hard work

 We used a big plank, level and laser lever then whacked it flat

 Visqueen laid on a bed of sand

 Jen cutting the visqueen

 Concrete arrives

Barrowing, raking and tamping - Jonny the tamper 

John the barrow man 

 

      Another job done

Stone Masons

Steve and Steve the stone masons from Anglesey have started to build the courtyard and built the pillars at the entrance the main room doorway.
They are pretty skilful guys who know how to manhandle and carefully place stone.
A lot of sand and cement was used.

Entrance to barn, gable frame ready to be stone clad

Stone retaining wall being built

The right pillar

This small wall will be topped with slate and used for seating BBQ's etc

Stone wall art

Pillar on the left and digging out the  living room floor

View of the wall through the doorway