Between the kitchen and the rest of the house far years there has just been a rough hole in the wall which has been there since we arrived. well with both sides now finished it’s time to finally put the last piece in place the arch itself. 
So we built the arch former from ply and small bits of pine. 
Once the former was complete then came the task of fitting it into the opening.
we screwed two boards across the bottom of the opening.
Then the arch former was fitted between them and secured in place.
Rebar has been put in to give the arch added strength. Note also that the other side has already had the boards fitted.
We poured the concrete in and added the extra boards as we went along.
With all the concrete poured in and the boards fitted it was time to cross fingers and pray that we had got the concrete where it was needed.
The following day it was time to take of the outer boards and see if we had in fact managed to get the concrete into the right places. As the photo above shows it looks like most of the concrete is where it needs to be, with just a few bits needing some surface patching…
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