Reflected Glory

This shiny beauty is our newly power-floated concrete floor. 

Completed last night at 10pm sharp. 

The Dream Team of Oli, Toby, Moley, Rob and Donk have been working towards this watershed moment for nearly two months. 

It’s one element of the project that I have been most excited about and I am totally bowled over by the roller disco result. 

But it was very nearly a complete disaster. 

The concrete was booked to arrive on Thursday. It was a date that wasn’t flexible. Come hell or high water, Thursday was when 54 tonnes of the sturdy stuff was being dumped on site. Oli and the lads had worked like stink to get ready for this crucial deadline. 

But on Monday of this week we had no one to help pump it, lay it or power float it. 

Now being ‘can do’ sort-of folk, we had a brief moment of thinking we might give it a go ourselves. But after a quick consultation with those in the know – who told us in no uncertain terms that it would be borderline insanity – we had a swift change of heart. 

Cue frantic phone calls to every concrete outfit Google could lay hands on. And like an angel on horseback came riding Danny from CBS Concreting. 

I cannot recommend this company highly enough. They were delightful, great value and exceptionally hard-working. The CBS team got cracking at 7.30am and barely drew breath until they had a perfect surface well after nightfall. 

And what a finish. 

We haven’t even had it polished yet (which comes next) and already you could fix your lippy in it.