Slab is in
May 21, 2008
Like a Bedouin I went out to take some pictures of the progress of the shed for the blog. Why a Bedouin you might wonder? Well, the midges have found their way to Skye again. It’s truly awful!! Massive clouds of the little buggers around…
The shed has its slab. We completed that yesterday. It was hard work. We had to do the slab in two stages as I had not ordered enough sand to mix all the concrete (stupid). So the first layer was put in a week ago and now the second was poured. Well, poured was not the right word. The first layer sucked all the water out of the concrete we poured over it, making it very difficult to work with. As it was a warm day, water evaporated from the newly poured mix as well…
We solved this by hosing the first layer vigorously with water, which helped a lot. Also, towards the end when we had to even out the second pour, there was a midge attack which made work difficult, to say the least. Anyway, it’s done now and we’re pretty pleased with the result. The blue stuff you see is the damp proof membrane which sits under the slab to prevent damp rising.
Today I did some corner block work which I will continue tomorrow. Weather is still very good so I take every opportunity to have a go.
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