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Just a quick update for anyone that was following this project and is wondering why nothing has been happening!
Things slowed down a little for the best part of this last month or so, but I am hoping it will be picking up again soon. Its partly to do with reaching a stage where we had to rely on other outside contractors to become available.
Also, I had to clear out the area and prep it. Decades of cow manure, bird and bat droppings had built up on the walls and well... everywhere. I had to buy a special chemical formula to safely spray the walls down with, then power hose everything.
The old broken concrete floors were angled substantially on a slope to one side, for the rather gross purpose of allowing manure to flow out of the barn when occupied by cattle.
I ordered a lorry load of blinding gravel that was used to level this out. There is also a load of sand which we have started to put on top of this today for the purpose of smoothing out the top of the sharp gravel, so as not to puncture the materials being used over the top of this. The floor insulation and polythene has also arrived and on Monday we have workers coming around to pour the new concrete floors. They have already been around to assess the location yesterday.
I have attached pictures of the levelled gravel layer recently put down.
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