{"id":3231,"date":"2014-06-20T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2017-07-05T19:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:32:49","slug":"friday-20th-june-2014-we-finished-this-concreting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3231","title":{"rendered":"Friday 20th June 2014 – WE FINISHED THIS CONCRETING TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or was it the concrete that finished us? One of the other anyway.<\/p>\n

\"concreting<\/a>But in fact the concreting isn’t finished because, strange as it is to relate it, we ended up not having enough. There was 60m\u00b2 of surface area at 150mm depth, which relates to not quite 9 cubic metres. Take off the surface area of the pit but add on the depths at the side of the pit, I calculated about 10 cubic metres. And as a result, se are about 1.5 cubic metres short.<\/p>\n

And it doesn’t look very pretty either. But there’s a reason for this. I planned to have 2 lorry-loads, one coming at 14:00 and the other one oming later in the day, each one having 5 cubic metres of concrete. And so when we finished the shuttering and fitting the grillage<\/em> at about 13:30, Terry suggested that I went and made my butty.
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\"concreting<\/a>My reply was, of course, based on past experience, that the moment I turned my back the concrete lorry would pull up. <\/p>\n

And so as I turned my back, the concrtee lorry did indeed turn up, and there was just Terry and me to receive it. Rob turned up shortly after and we were shovelling and barrowing like mad. 7.5 cubic metres on this load instead of the 5 that I asked for, so we had to move quickly. And even more so when the lorry came back, just 15 minutes later with the second load.
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\nHottest day for a couple of weeks to and so it was drying before we could lay it properly. And so with all of this, it’s no wonder that the job doesn’t look very pretty. Still, it’s down and that is what counts. I’ll have to finish it off some other time – probably with the cement mixer.<\/p>\n

The water in the solar heat exchanger was a healthy 35\u00b0C and so I took the opportunity to have a nice warmish shower. So now, just for a change, I’m all clean and dry. I came up here and crashed straight out. And I’m hardly surprised. <\/p>\n

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Or was it the concrete that finished us? One of the other anyway. But in fact the concreting isn’t finished because, strange as it is to relate it, we ended up not having enough. There was 60m\u00b2 of surface area at 150mm depth, which relates to not quite 9 cubic metres. Take off the surface […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258,330,477],"tags":[443,2560,5565,5366,261,2329,1147,462],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","category-liz_terry-messenger","category-rob_julie","tag-concreting","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-outside-shower","tag-rob_julie-2","tag-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}