Barn terrace preparations

I've not posted any new blogs for sometime, but that doesn't mean we've been idle 😉 

With a long spell of nice dry weather and a need to get outside from working in the PMR gîte, we've switched attention for a week to construct the terrace around 3 sides of the barn. The 4th side will be the extension for the bathroom and kitchen/storage room. That is another post I'm publishing today as well.

The terrace will be 3m wide along the long sides of the barn and 5m wide on the gable end, 174m2 in total. This translates to 24m3 of concrete, 3 lorry loads!

While we got in professionals to levelling the ground and compacting the hardcore, we did all the "coffrage" (wooden supports and planks and the rebar (actually soldered sheets of rebar). In all 70 panels of 2.5mx1.2m rebar and lot of arduous but very rewarding work. The concrete arrives at 8am tomorrow so early night for me anyway! It will be a very long day.

If you're curious why the windows look blurred, we've protected them with plastic to avoid concrete splashes and sometimes the pump will splatter out concrete when it starts and this will also prevent any stones from damaging the doors.









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  1. Luke3 March 2021 at 20:57

    Once the concrete is poured that foundation wall on the side is gonna look so good! Good luck with the concrete pour haha

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