Conservatory bases
Hi there are welcome to my world today at Johns brickwork Ltd which started in a project today for a new client we have been contacted to carry out works to build a conservatory 8 m long 3 m projection offer the house wall
Firstly we had to remove patio slabs there was around about 200 of them and put them all to one side and removed the loose cement and sand, when we stacked all that and slabs on a pallet and then started up and machines and tracked all the way through the house in the garden once in position week out lined the perimeter of the conservatory with an aerosol spray tin the name of this product is called speed line is highly visible in yellow and very clear to the eye.When the outline was completed the machine moved into position and started to excavate the ground to the shape of the yellow speed line that we had sprayed on the soil when the machine has a bucket full of soil it rotates around and places the soil from the bucket and places all the soil into the wheelbarrows to the labourers that will push the wheelbarrows through the house into the main front garden and place the soil in the barren into the large skip in the road.
When when we have completed the excavation to a depth of 1 m deep skip will be full up and probably weigh around 12 t in weight generally as a role when soil is damp or wet it can weight buy one third more so you can imagine there be quite a bit of weight that carry through .The concrete lorry arrived just shortly after we had excavated the footings for the conservatory he was carrying a special machine to pump concrete through a long metal pipe through the house and into one into the footings this is called concrete pump the concrete lorry can discharge 5 m in around 5 min we consider this to be a critical timesaving factor for all of us.The name of the concrete and we use the split is called C 25 this is strong enough to build a single-storey extension on the concrete supplier that we buy from gives us a 25 year guarantee which gives all clients total piece of mine because the foundation is the most important part of all builds as people know that everything starts from the ground up this gives them total quality assurance.
The concrete that is being pumped by the machine called the concrete pump discharges its load into the footings are quite a volume and rate in most cases the concrete can come out the pipe quite hot this is due to the chemical reaction within the raw materials that occurs very sound natural process when the concrete is flowing freely within the footings with him placed the reinforcement bars in the concrete within the footings steel bars give the footings added strength at the corners and on the front excavated area. Near the end of the pour we start to tap the concrete to get it level by temping remain a long piece of wood and 4 x 2″ and then beat The concrete up and down initial sharp movements to level the concrete to preach hate the level the concrete will set hard overnight and then will begin a later stage to start the brickwork to form the conservatory
