Here are some pictures of last weeks work on the site for the new workshop;
Railway sleepers to form a new wall in front of the old wall and extend the area to 25ft. Notice the steel I beams for holding the sleepers. Nearly killed the fellas who had to carry the thirty sleepers up to the top of the garden.
After a few days work sleepers in place. The tops of the I beams will be trimmed later. The shuttering completed, 20' by 16', steel mesh and dpm.
Approx 100mm thick in middle extra thickness at the edges. Tom with his hard hat, before his mum told him and me off for getting mud on our shoes. :roll:
Early start yesterday morning when this monster appeared. :shock:
Just reached over existing workshop, then pipes to the site up the garden.
Cement lorry turned up and tipped cement into hopper, gave us all a shock when it started pumping, like wrestling a giant snake. :lol:
Picture from this morning all looking good. Water and electric already in place.
It only took about 10 minutes to fill the pad with approx 4 m3 of concrete. When the pad was nearly full they put a foam ball in the pipe and pumped this up the pipe to push out excess. When the ball flew out it was like a bullet. No waste at all, a very impressive machine/approach.
It would have taken a lot of hard work to barrow that concrete. Back breaking work.
A single course of engineering bricks will be set on top of the pad ready for the workshop to arrive on Wednesday.
More pictures to follow next week. Hope this thread is of interest.
Cheers, Tony.
Railway sleepers to form a new wall in front of the old wall and extend the area to 25ft. Notice the steel I beams for holding the sleepers. Nearly killed the fellas who had to carry the thirty sleepers up to the top of the garden.
After a few days work sleepers in place. The tops of the I beams will be trimmed later. The shuttering completed, 20' by 16', steel mesh and dpm.
Approx 100mm thick in middle extra thickness at the edges. Tom with his hard hat, before his mum told him and me off for getting mud on our shoes. :roll:
Early start yesterday morning when this monster appeared. :shock:
Just reached over existing workshop, then pipes to the site up the garden.
Cement lorry turned up and tipped cement into hopper, gave us all a shock when it started pumping, like wrestling a giant snake. :lol:
Picture from this morning all looking good. Water and electric already in place.
It only took about 10 minutes to fill the pad with approx 4 m3 of concrete. When the pad was nearly full they put a foam ball in the pipe and pumped this up the pipe to push out excess. When the ball flew out it was like a bullet. No waste at all, a very impressive machine/approach.
It would have taken a lot of hard work to barrow that concrete. Back breaking work.
A single course of engineering bricks will be set on top of the pad ready for the workshop to arrive on Wednesday.
More pictures to follow next week. Hope this thread is of interest.
Cheers, Tony.
