Concrete all 13m3 of it

Concrete lorries were due in the afternoon so while the builders were waiting they built the new retaining wall.

  

A bit of a squeeze to get the pump lorry down the drive.

  

The pump lorry was soon joined by the second.

 

 The second lorry feed the pump.

 

And the concrete pumped onto the first terrace, 8m3.

 

 When second lorry was empty the pump lorry dropped another 5m3 on the second terrace. They were about 4 wheelbarrow loads short which was soon mixed up and thrown on by hand

 Both terraces were smoothed out with the required 5cm slope over 5m.

The lorry drivers spent as much time cleaning the lorries as they did pumping the concrete

Now we wait for it to harden enough for the block wall to be built on the edge of the terrace.

We have to make a decision now on how high to make that terrace wall. Initial thoughts were to be the same height as the retaining wall on the left then capped. With a wire balustrade behind to prevent kids or idiots falling off the terrace.