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    Levelling a concrete greenhouse base.

    Evening.

    I need to lay a level 10' x 8' greenhouse base.

    I mostly understand concreting. I know you build a frame, chuck the concrete in, then you and your mate tamp it down with your scaffold board cut to size, and all the fines come to the surface so you can smooth it over with a float if you feel posh.

    I want to know what you do if it needs to go in a corner by the fence and your mate can't get to the other side without falling in.

    How do you level it?

    Please help.
    MBE
    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
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    Wouldn't you start in that corner and work diagonally backwards?
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

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    • #3
      What, you mean not fill it all at once? I've never done that.
      Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
      By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
      While better men than we go out and start their working lives
      At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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      • #4
        We had a metal strip the same height as the surrounds which was set in the middle to make sure the depth was even across the middle .
        I think it was called an expansion strip or something.
        Not sure if you can get them in the uk though?
        "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

        Location....Normandy France

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        • #5
          You're just looking forward to sloshing about in a tub of concrete aren't you?

          It's way easier to make the mix a bit thicker and level it barrow load by barrowload
          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

          Location....Normandy France

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          • #6
            I'm at a loss as to why you want to lay concrete. Would it not be easier to lay a bed of sand then put paving slabs down?
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Nicos View Post
              It's way easier to make the mix a bit thicker and level it barrow load by barrowload
              I'd have worked on the principle that water finds its own level so the runnier the better.
              Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
              By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
              While better men than we go out and start their working lives
              At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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              • #8
                Your call!
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Bigmallly View Post
                  I'm at a loss as to why you want to lay concrete. Would it not be easier to lay a bed of sand then put paving slabs down?
                  Oh good grief no I can't lay a level slab for love nor money please don't make me do it.

                  Plus concrete is less blowawayable than slabs to my mind.
                  Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                  By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                  While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                  At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Nicos View Post
                    Your call!
                    If I pick you up from Dover will you come and show me?
                    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                    • #11
                      Concreting is fun!
                      Not environmentally friendly though ...
                      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                      Location....Normandy France

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by mrbadexample View Post
                        If I pick you up from Dover will you come and show me?

                        Walsall?




                        Nah






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                        Location....Normandy France

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                        • #13
                          Fair point.
                          Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                          By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                          While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                          At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                          • #14
                            You'll be fine.....just remember it's nothing like mud wrestling
                            "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                            Location....Normandy France

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                            • #15
                              I still think you are making hard work for yourself..............build a wall 3 or 4 courses high then you can use the soil for beds.
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                              -------------------------------------------------------------------
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