Phase 2 floor pour

Time moves on and so does the build, albeit much slower than most of the builds featured in blogs.

Over the past 4 months we have dug out, cleared and prepared our 2nd phase ready for the groundworks, as in all the stuff that goes in the ground, costs lots of money and is never to seen again.

 The next wall to be replaced and the old roof to be removed.

This is one of the original walls, but it only had 200mm foundation so was not saveable.

Cleared

Trenched,  this is where we had to get the SE to visit, he said we had clay and needed 2.4m trench originally.  The BCO visited and said 'you're having a giraffe'.

A site visit was arranged between the two of them and 1m was agreed.  Of course this cost of circa £500 for a bit of paper from the SE to change the original drawings.

Concrete pumping, these guys were brilliant and come greatly recommended.  I think G&J had the same peeps.  Certainly beats the previous trenches which we raked despite the extra cost

Then we needed to dig down for the insulation and floor pour.  BCO cleared us to use our own sand for blinding.

Then insulation, DPM, more insulation & mesh

And the next pour, again with the pump, in 30 degree heat.  

22 cbm of the stuff.

and our new levelling tool, a bull nosed float, hired for £17 for a week, which gave much better results than our previous raked floor in phase 1.

It will, of course, be screeded with UFH when we get to that stage, but lots of walls to be built first.

And drains and windows and doors.

As per one of my other posts we did have some blocks knocked over for the single wall by the pipe, but looks like that is because of light blocks and hot temperatures.

We also had to keep some of the existing foundations and walls as this is a conversion so we need to sort our drainage with those.

Talk again when walls are up, in about another 6 months probably 🙂