Garage progress

So finally we got round to getting the concrete poured for the garage and the roof ordered and fitted.

For the concrete, we decided to use a line pump again - we could have used a boom but given how close to the road we were, a 2inch line pump seemed a good idea. And it was :)

We opted to go with volumetric mixers this time to avoid having too little or too much concrete. The first truck turned up slightly late and with an inexperienced mixer operator - he wasn't able to get the (oversanded) mix right and the line get blocking. Soon the second truck turned up and in no time we had the right mix and started pumping. The garage walls are 3m high and 250mm core, so we had over 24m3 to pump. Although I know Polarwall is very robust, I'm always wary about bursts and so the first jeager was done with 5 rounds of the line pump to take us to 1m.

All went well and we did the remaining loaded at 0.5m a time.

Next up was the garage roof. We decided to to for sheet metal decking, which would be laid with reinforcing bar and mesh and poured with concrete. 

It duly arrived and was handballed off. 24 hours later it was up.