A new concrete floor

The barn needed a new concrete floor, so in the winter of 2007 we started demolishing the old slab. First by hand with a sledge hammer and a wheelbarrow. Later I bought a power pick. A friend (on the photograph) sometimes helped, but I did most of it myself. Because of the hard physical work, working at - 10'C was possible. Any colder than that, the work stopped. All in all, it took the better part of winter to pull out all of the concrete and the granit stone foundations. The whole floor was lowered by 20 cm and egalised with gravel.

In february 2008 othe neighbours helped to pour in the 5 m3 of concrete for a 10 cm slab. It went well. Unfortunately nobody had ever done this kind of work. So the surface isn't as smooth as it should be. A second thin layer of liquid concrete will have to resolve that problem later on. Ofcourse I put in the connections for electricity, water supply and sewage before pouring the concrete. But you can never have too many tubes in your conrete slab. Today I would put in more.