We waited five weeks for a couple of days without rain scheduled and at long last pencilled in the concrete and the guys from Y Rhondda...and the concrete pour began...
In fact, after floods, rain, low temperatures and grey sky there was a risk of it being too hot in the end - too cold it'll freeze, too wet it'll pock mark our concrete floors, too hot and it'll crack...
But it got poured...the underfloor heating pipes started to move up and Rob had to squeeze in to put more cable ties on the corners to keep them down...
The eight guys got the concrete all down early and then hung around till they could powerfloat it...
And then it had to be hosed down every few hours all afternoon and evening because it was so hot to touch - and then again the next day. Not nice to think of those pipes in that heat...but they seemed to have survived ok.
Concrete pouring team headed off to their next job in Central London and Rob and John dug up the manifolds and John has tested the underfloor water pressure - it seems good.
Now, just a few jobs and the groundworks are done and the framework begins - feels like there might actually be a house there one day now. Not sure what the cats and dogs will do with that much room now!
