JUST A WEE BIT MORE

Well, we had the May Day holiday, fortunately the floor specialists had a hole in their calendar, they agreed to come on Friday and do the garage floor, this is a bit of a bonus job, as there is no hurry to do the garage, we were planning on doing it next year, but the more we do now the better it gets.

The floor is rather special, not just concrete, it has a compound blended into the surface when it is still setting, this gives it an harder than usual surface, very important over here, when in the winter time we are driving with studded tyres, they can easily destroy the surface of the floor if it is just painted, even bare concrete cannot withstand the rigours placed upon it with studded tyres.
PUTTING THE CONCRETE DOWN. All in all it took 6.2 cubic meters of concrete for the floor, depth of concrete is 10cm.


LEVELLING IT OUT. A job for a specialist, certainly not for me, it is the kind of work that requires years of practice, best to hire the right people for the job, these guys are really good, We have used them on all our previous projects and I've recommended them to countless others.USUAL STORY, ONE GUY WORKS AND TWO WATCH. It took about 7 hours to do the floor, first it is laid out, then you must wait for it to start setting, about 1 to 2 hours, depending on the conditions, after that they start to work in the topping compound, it's called Master Top, (Google it), then comes the finishing, which just entails smoothing everything out, easy to say, but a devilish tricky job if you're not experienced in it.