Point North, Gloster Hill Self Build

Finally, the slab is to be laid. After final approvals from the SW inspector, BCO and Gas Membrane guy, the pour will start, it’s Thursday.

Plan is pump arrives at 8am and concrete starts to arrive at 8.30. We are expecting about 36 cubic meters. Which is about 5 loads.

Myself and Fiona arrive on site early. Lots of people working but no concrete. So we hoist the flag and wait ..

Finally about 9.30 the first concrete truck arrives and after much faffing (it appears) the pump starts and the concrete flows.

Weather held for a few hours but it kept raining so it was too wet to power float the slab, so that was pushed back to Friday.

Friday, power float day, but the slab is now basically a swimming pool so the ground workers had to remove the water. But as there is no gaps in the upstands , they have to cut the pop ups and push the water through the drains .. how this will be fixed is another problem

Myself and Fiona visit the site and realise that the vertical rebar hasn’t been placed. A panic call to Marc (structural engineer); explanation is that the upstands have been cast in one so rebar isn’t needed but he’d not been informed that the approach had been changed ! No impact but this could have been disastrous.

Successful day or is it …. Waiting for the lorrys to arrive to take some muck away. The digger pushes too much soil, gets stuck and the mound of earth collapses through the Heras Fencing, breaking the posts and blocks the pavement 🤷🏻‍♂️