Concreting the Back Yard

  Concreting Day

We decided that the back yard needed concreting. After looking at the oprions we decided to go with pumping the concrete rather than using wheelbarrows. Thanks to funding by Southways Housing (our landlords) we were able to do this and today "Barrow Mix Pumping" came in the morning and completed the pumping, the tampoing and clean up in about 2 hours.

Chris had done a great job (assisted by others) in preparing the shuttering and eveyhing went very smoothly. There is a photo at the end with Aaron, Dan and Steads from Barrow Mix. They even refused to take the traditional tip for their hard work because we are a charity. Many thanks and what a great job you did

Concreting - the video

 

The Day after - all dry and ready to use

The Bike Shed nears completion

The Bike Shed nears completion

The concrete base was laid last week and now if fully hardened and the wooden form  has now been removed. It's looking good!

beginning the base of the shed

gradually building it up

Here come the walls (rather flimsy metal)

doing the base and sides of the shed is much more straightforward than assembling the roof (done a couple of weeks ago)

Ready to  put on the roof

get ready to lift

Trying it out for comfort

Jim thinks about the next steps to get the bike project on the road

The day the concrete arrived

Making the Concrete base for the Bike Shed

We are assembling a large metal shed for our Bike Project. We realised we would need a level concrete base. After advice from John, we constructed a frame which was level and then ordered some Barrow Mix concrete, which was delivered yesterday. Fortunately, Chris, and experienced joiner was there to direct proceedings. He nailed the hardboard lining which had been made the previous week which would prevent the liquid concrete from spilling out

This is a video of the arrival of the concrete, it being barrowed in to the yard and dumped into the frame. After much shovelling  and then tamping and scraping of the concrete to make it level, the job was done. Next week we will get back to assembling the shed to put on the concrete base