Greenhouse with paving stones in the garden

Here, in the middle of the garden, between the house and the horse paddock, the greenhouse will stand.

All in all, it is about 6 cubic meters of heavy clay soil that has to be removed.

Then all the soil was dug up and moved away! We have put up a bit of the earth as an embankment at one end to even out the difference in height

Then all the soil was dug up and moved away! We have put up a bit of the earth as an embankment at one end to even out the difference in height

Today we got home 12 tons of macadam that was tipped off the garage driveway

Here we have put a fiber cloth in the bottom, and some wheelbarrows of macadam on top of that

Here, two of the paper tubes for the concrete plinths have arrived, and Mats is drilling for the third. He drills about 1 meter deep

Now all six paper tubes and a layer of macadam are in place

The macadam must be properly packed for it to be good. Our toad can only pack about 1 dm deep so we have to run it in several rounds

Even more macadam.

Now we've cut off some of the paper tubes and gauges so that they're all on the same level. To measure that everything is in balance, we use a home-made hose level.

Now all the macadam is in place, padded and ready! It was about 30 cm deep. And then we put a layer of stone flour on top of the macadam.

Here we have dug a channel where we laid pipes for electricity, water hose and a data cable.

The last few days it has rained so much that the pipes we are going to cast in are almost full of water and new water is flowing in all the time. So we had to get a small simple pump, which is driven by the drilling machine, to be able to empty the pipes.

In order to get the entire surface completely horizontal, we have laid out battens and use a leveling board to even out the stone flour.

Now we have screwed together the plinth and the casting irons and measured carefully so that all angles are right. We mix concrete and fill the paper tubes, and put the plinth in place in the tubes. Then we check the diagonals one last time. Now it's just a matter of waiting for the concrete to harden.

Today we will lay the foundation stone. We have received two pallets with approximately twenty square meters of stone from Stenbolaget. We have chosen a mixture of reddish and greyish colors called Terramix.

Thanks to good preliminary work that provided an even surface, it was very easy to lay the stone. We had to grind some stones with the help of the angle grinder because the casting irons were in the way. With the help of a stone cutter, it is easy to split stones. All you have to do is push...and suddenly the stone is split into two parts

Now there is stone all over the inside of the greenhouse.

We pour out roughly fifty kilos of fine-grained joint sand, which we brush into all the joints. When the sand is in place, we drive the toad one last time. After the padding, we sweep down a little more sand, and then it's done.

We smooth the edge around the greenhouse and pull it off so that it leans slightly outwards all the way. When we've put all the stones in place, we'll also put joint sand and toads down here.

Now the foundation is ready, and we can start assembling the greenhouse itself.

Now most of the "skeleton" for the greenhouse has arrived.

We have now put glass on the entire greenhouse.

Now we have leveled the earth embankment around the greenhouse so that we can gradually sow grass on it.

To connect the greenhouse with the balcony, we lay a small path with stepping stones. The stones are dark limestone that we bought at Stenbolaget. We dig out the grass, add some stone flour and level it. Then it's just a matter of putting the stone on and stomping on

This is what it looks like when the entire path is finished. It was pretty easy – the hardest part was deciding where to put the stones.