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New Tractor Shed
awemawson:
So today is the Tuesday after the Bank Holiday Weekend, and I was up early mucking out the pigs when the flooring guys arrived. Now we'd expected the steel to be delivered but had not expected that they were going to lay it!
Now Darren hadn't quite got everything ready, so a quick call (which amazingly he answered eventually!) got him out of bed and finishing off levelling and flattening inside.
While this was happening I popped out to pick up half a ton of pig food and when I got back met the steel lorry coming out of my gate :bugeye: The floor was pretty much ready to take the membrane and steel - a bit of soft sand to blind a few places and they set too laying the membrane, the mesh supports and the mesh.
Then Gary came in with load 37 of soil making a current field stockpile of four heaps.
Once the floor chaps had left Darren grouted in the pillar bases, set the two roof drain gullies on concrete pads and sorted a temporary runoff for the rain we expect tonight and tommorow
Concrete is ordered for 07:30 Thursday - 6 lorry loads and a concrete pump to get it to the back of the shed.
awemawson:
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awemawson:
Pouring with rain today but we had to finish preparing for tomorrows concrete pour :(
Firstly we prepared the threshold strip - (80 x 80 mm angle) that gives a small lip to the front edge of the slab to stop rain being driven under the roller shutter. This was welded onto the pillars either side of the main door and continues across to the pedestrian door.
Then the wooden shuttering to flank either side of the doors was made and pegged in place. Then the shuttering and threshold strip were backed up temporarily with crushed concrete to stop them moving.
Each pillar (12 of them) were made at our request with an extra hole at mid floor level, and we hooked a length of re-bar shaped like a walking stick through these to firmly anchor the slab and pillars together.
Then finally Darren cut slots in the rear shuttering for the exits from the roof gullies and placed a short length of 110 mm pipe into them ready to connect up after the concrete is laid.
A last tidy up to make room for the six concrete lorries and pump to turn - last time we had a concrete pump here he demolished the corner of one of my Portakabins :bugeye:
I've even evicted the cottage guests from their normal parking places to avoid disasters (hopefully) when they all start rolling in tomorrow morning at 07:30
Forecast is for fine weather in the morning - let's hope they've got it right !
Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,
It's all looking good though it's way out of my league!!
I was interested to see the gizmos that you've used to position your reinforcement mesh at the right level - I've never seen that type before.
I discovered the little concrete pucks just AFTER we'd poured the slab for my workshop!! :doh: :doh: :doh:
Is your mesh strong enough to walk on while the pour is in progress? I've been following Blancolirio's YouTube channel showing the work on the Oroville dam spillway repairs - their mesh is a big enough grid for the guys to stand one leg in each square or even to stand the whole body in one square. I fear that the mesh in my workshop slab ended up (or should I say 'down') just resting on the membrane!! Definitely sub-optimum!! We'd previously put down a strip footing, stepped because of the lie of the land, and then laid 18" x 9" x 4½" concrete blocks as what one building inspector called 'permanent shuttering', one course at one end and two at the other.
awemawson:
Well I've been walking on it today to no ill effect to the mesh however it would be very easy to twist an ankle as the squares are almost foot sized !
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