Men With Drills

The drilling began once I had taken all of the wooden blocks up the day before in the three areas selected by the mezzanine manufacturers. 3 cores needed to be taken in areas where loading would be significant as well as a cross section of locations around the hall to make sure that the slab did not change significantly in structure. The job was meant to take all day but only took until 2pm. The cores were taken away for testing but once they had arrived back at the drilling companies offices it was decided that testing was not necessary due to the samples being so poor. This is not the news we wanted to hear but was very kind and honest of the drilling company who saved us spending an unnecessary fee on the testing and reporting process. So we now have two options with regards to which direction we travel in, the first being to research the possibility of piling with a view to reducing the number of columns and therefor the number of piles. The second option is to start drawing up plans for a timber framed and weight baring stud wall cassette floor design. More images to follow. We will now speak with engineers about each idea and also get in touch with buildings regs people to find a pathway through this set back.