I told you about the tunnels that people in the village think is under our cellar floor. It might be so, but when we started to investigate it we found that the hole in the floor was solidly filled with debris and very hard to do something about. We simply decided that the investigation of the underground of our house has to be left to the next generation. So, we decided to just make a concrete floor over the whole space. There was however a little problem as the existing floor had quite a big difference in height from one end to the other. If we would make the new floor totally levelled we had to make it more than 10 cm higher in one end which would mean to cut the door and a few other things. We decided that it is not a big deal if the floor is a bit off level so we did it the pragmatic way.

The procedure was quite simple. We levelled out the floor fairly well with gravel, put the electric cabling in place, fitted the reinforcing steel nets and poured concrete over it. To get nice and even surface on the right level we first made three elevated strings of concrete that was absolutely levelled. When the concrete was poured on the floor it was levelled out with a long plank that we skidded on the two elevated concrete guides. In this way we got a very even and nice floor on the right level.

After the concrete floor was dry, which takes quite a while, we put tiles of Pierres du Lot, that is often used down here, mostly outside. We however thought it would give the right rustic character to our cellar.