Cheery Tree, before and after pruning

11th April 2017

 22nd April 2018

Walls Capped

Not sure yet if we we reuse the old fencing

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.

Shuttering

Both terraces now prepared for the concrete pour which should happen tomorrow. I hope to be here to see it. In order to achieve a 5cm slope (1cm per meter from the house to the garden and to have sufficient depth of concrete at the garden edge the new concrete will be at a level about quarter of the way up the existing steps and the tiles will therefore be half way up. Not ideal but the alternative is to take up the whole concrete base.