Garage and other stuff

Today was a bit hectic.

Supposed to get a concrete pump at 8am. He turns up way before then (while I'm on the way to the bank to get him his money) says he can't get to the house because the road is blocked by Police. Apparently a body found just at one end of the village.

Then the same problem caused the concrete lorries to be late. In the meantime, I was waiting for UK power networks to do the preliminary work to get our meter moved so it's not hanging down in the middle of the kitchen! A window man turned up, and a roofer, who was investigating why we had water coming into the house over the weekend (heavy rain) and 2 electricians who were there to do the follow up work for the meter move too.

Anyway, the concreting part was the most interesting - we had two concrete lorries:

and

and the concrete pump:

A load of pipework:

And a whacking great hole to fill:

While the concrete lorries were being swapped over, the reinforcing mesh went in:

Then the rest of the pour:

Until we had:

Then:

And finally:

That shuttering is 225mm high - so a standard scaffold board. The 'toe' of the foundation - so the trench all the way around was 500mm deep, then this on top. So even though there was some type 1 in the middle, that can't have been more than 50mm higher than the toe, so basically this is not going anywhere, Close to a 9" slab of reinforced concrete.