Monday, August 22, 2016

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

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