Pouring the Garage Foundations
The time has come! We are placing the first concrete on the site. We are using a special concrete from Lafarge called ‘Agilia Trench flow’. This should allow us the…
Early Start
Well early for us! About 8:30 we started to prepare formwork infront of the temporary front door. This will give us a place to put any excess concrete later on. We…
Levelling and Tidying up ground around garage
Spent yesterday and today levelling and tidying up the grounds in front of the garage and the storage shed to get them ready for laying down an asphalt hard-core layer…
Concrete Man Comes!
The concrete Rep from Lafarge came today to see our site. Full of very useful information. We have ordered 4.5 cubic metres and it is coming tomorrow at 11am. The…
BCO approves Holes!
Our friendly BCO have been and inspected our holes, ready for the concrete foundations of the garage. It looks very nice and well compacted he said so he’s happy, we…
Filled around the foundations
All of the area around the foundations has now been filled to nearly the right level. The area inside the garage was filled with sand and compacted and the outsides…
Electric man visit
Having paid the kings ransom on Monday, the man from EDF energy came this morning. Looked at the site and old meter and approved the route for the new cable.…
Doing Form work (not paper ones)
Sunday Cleared last bit of topsoil alongside the sheds away by spade and barrow, then carefully marked out the four corners of the garage, checking to ensure everything was square! Monday Started by…
Requested BCO to come and inspect foundations
We are ready for the next inspection visit. This time it is our foundations and making sure the bottom of the trenches are on firm ground ready for 300mm thick…
Cutting time
Made a large saw table to expand the much smaller table saw to a usfull size. We then cut up 6 sheets of 18mm OSB into 300mm wide strips for…