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Restoration of a 150 year old Barn.
Bruce S:
ClockmanFRA;
The cost of that amount of slate is more than my house is worth!! IF I were to try and purchase it locally.
The tools you show and the English/French way of installing looks similar to the tools here. On our East cost, the have weather codes they must comply with , and those stainless steel "hooks" look the very same.
clockmanFRA:
2,200 slates cost me Total, the equivalent of $1600.
With new under felt, main joist repairs/replace, tile battens, Zink gutters etc, clips and other bits, I expect a total total cost of a New Roof about $3000.
I have my own UK type scaffolding, as the French stuff hangs on ladders and the building and scares the c..rap out of me.
See photo of a local French Roofing guy......
clockmanFRA:
The 10 meters by 5 meters, 33ft x 16ft, Barn gets a new floor.
Concrete is not particular envoirmently friendly, but I try to use as little as possible.
The barn has been excavated by hand, me a couple of hours each day, if nothing else it keeps me fit and keeps my weight down.
Using the hand spade and shovel you get a feel for the ground and done properly the ground comes up cleanly, and more importantly you can see good sub soil, ie hard, and see soft back fill from those 150 years ago, so excavation is minimal.
Yes I can operate JCB mini diggers etc, but here everything is incredibly expensive to Hire, and stuff is far away, and the ground is not easy to judge when your in a cab.
This pic shows the side trenches of the Raft Foundation and these go down to the bottom of the original wall foundations. The ground will dry hard and then crumble so the concrete needs to go in within 2 weeks.
The black 1000 guage DPM goes in and the steel reinforcement starts to be sorted out.
The concrete is in.
Centre of the raft is about 200mm, 7 to 9 inches thick, with the side trenches about 500mm, 19 to 22 inches thick, and 400mm, 16 to 20 inches wide.
I used about 11 cubic meters, that was 2off 14 wheeler mixer lorries as around here the max each lorry can take is 8 cubic meters. Total cost about $1600.
The first managed to get his shoot in to about half way in the barn, but it stilled needed shovelling about.
The second lorry was a pump lorry but the driver was not going to get his pump dirty. A row ensued with my good friend 'Ali', who is very French but several generations from Morocco. The pump lorry only had 3 shoot sections so me and 'Ali' were well k.nackered at the end of the day.
Levelling was done with 8 wooden stakes hammered into the ground and these were levelled to each other, then wellington boots on, and a 15ft long wood Tamper Board, up and down a few times and it levels out.
I will let the concrete rest for about 2 weeks. :) :)
My grateful thanks to Ali.
Bruce S:
Nice!!
Did you leave it as one huge slab? or are there what I call "control cracks" which is what the pros here do so if there is a weak point it will crack there instead of just anywhere?
Mary B:
I have a new garage going up in a few weeks, going to be pouring a 30x24 foot slab. I am leaving it to the pros!
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