{"id":6986,"date":"2014-09-22T19:06:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6986"},"modified":"2014-09-22T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:08:00","slug":"all-ready-to-rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/all-ready-to-rock-and-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"All ready to rock-and-roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Wim saw my idea of placing three lengths of old metal in the ‘built-up’ end of the concrete of my new wood store (and workshop) with the aim of hopefully preventing it dropping in the future and cracking, he said that it would be better to put some proper reinforcing steel in. And I had to agree with him. So having fitted my old roof bars on the Kia over the week-end, today I went dashing off to Brico Depot to get a suitable piece. I had to rush over there as I thought that I might be too late to get there before Brico Depot closed for lunch at mid-day. In the event, I was wrong on both counts. The ‘old’ lunch-time closing time was 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm, but Brico Depot have now applied a new policy of remaining open ‘non-stop’, all day from 7.30 am to 7.30 pm, as they have been doing for some time on Saturdays.<\/p>\n

So have the management of a French company (OK, owned by the UK’s Kingfisher who also owns B & Q) at last seen the light about how to sell more product and boost profits? Is this perhaps the beginning of the revolution that will drag France kicking and screaming into the 21st century and at the same time start to re-vitalise its sagging economy? We don’t know, it’s too early to say, but I for one hope so. And I commend Brico Depot for being the first to take the step that challenges a key issue at the heart of French working tradition and practices. Someone had to and I hope that it works for them and other major companies decide to follow their lead.<\/p>\n

The reinforcing sheet was only just over 16 euros so I think that it will be an investment. I only needed to put it in the built-up end and here’s how it looked after I’d done it. It was a perfect fit with no cutting needed.<\/p>\n

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So then all I needed to do to get me all ready to start concreting tomorrow was put a couple of boards in place for me to run the wheel-barrow on. I found a couple of what I thought were scaffold boards in my ‘grenier’ when I first moved in so I went upstairs and dug them out. It turned out that they are actually two cut oak planks but they’ll be OK for what I want to do. I’ll be starting up in the back top left of the new base, laying the concrete from left to right and then moving forward until I’ve completed the whole job. Here’s how I set the two oak planks up.<\/p>\n

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So now I’m all set to go. The weather should be almost perfect tomorrow with no rain forecast (for the whole week, actually) and a temperature starting at around 13 degrees Celsius and rising to about 20 degrees by mid-day. I don’t know how long the job will take but I’m now all ready to go and can’t wait to get started at last \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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