The Lockdown Lockup

Cladding looks great, lead on cills looks good too. With gutters on should be ready for the winter.

Small update, managed to buy a job lot of used guttering and down pipes for the wallet bustign fee of £20.
Was more than enough to do the entire shed, all fitted up now.
Happy days

This one will no doubt be controversial but anyways it is what it is.
Its now time to do a floor
The sensible option would be to hire a wagon of concrete , pour it and we are done, wouldn't it?
But I have a block payed drive that I don't want a massive lorry on, and don't want to pay for a concrete pup as I am also a skinflint.
So the trusty old Belle minimix was brought out.a pile of ballast and cement picked up and good to go.
I have broken the floor down into bite sized chunks, or 8ths really, each one 4m x 2m.
The section to be done was shuttered off and commenced work on Saturday morning, almost 4 hrs later, the first section was complete.

I did debate installing rebar, but this wont have anything much heavier than a car or small tractor in it so decided against it. 4" thick at its shallowest and a tad thicker elsewhere.






Now I wont pretend that I am chuffed with the finish of the floor, I'm not.
Probably solo tamping across 4m span is a little too wide.
But I have young kids and neither of them have a penis so are not really interested in helping.

I may hire in a concrete grinder machine when complete to smooth it out a bit, or I may not we will see.

I could, and I think i possibly will next time, i have taken a halfer tomorrow to get the next piece done and allow a few days curing time before Sat, do you reckon thats long enough cured to tamp against or will the tamping stick wear into the slab that was poured on Sat last week?

I also bought some fibreglass reinforcing fibers for the slab, but havent used them thus far as I read it can make the surface hairy and difficult to paint of epoxy later on, anyone got any experience with this stuff?

I think I will just butt them up, i guess i could butt them and then run the stihlsaw down the join to make an expansion joint, i dunno if its really necessary though

Lights are nice & bright for only 4 foot.

Mix looks a bit brown? what mix are you using?

You could always do the bays 12" fron the wall edge and fill the outer strip in last, that way you can walk round it and tamp across the 2 metres.

I tend to run a plastering trowel over the floor after tamping, gives a nice smooth finish for little effort.

a closer shot, but it still looks brownish to me
must be those curse word 4' LEDs

Wow looking back at this thread, I’m not a kick in the backside off 2 years at this build.
Time flies eh.

I'm leaving the floor to cure for a few hours, then will try the plastering trowel again when a little more firm.