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Following the fire at Easter (2022) we decided against rebuilding and instead went ahead with the sale of the property that had been agreed with the purchasers before the fire occurred. With the house went ....
January 9
Erik is on site today. To keep out of his way I am insulating the shower room. In between I drove to Saintes to pick up some final components to fit the design we have ....
January 8
I am designing the shower room basin area on the fly to hide the services and form some useful shelving. Proving trickier than I thought. The front is now structured but I have to work ....
January 7
Not much to show for a day’s work but these will be the ventilation pipes for the shower and utility rooms. A bit tricky getting the long pipe in through the bogging and with the ....
January 6
With the cold store done (except for the ceiling) I turn my attention to the shower room. The sewage pipes are dismantled and glued back In place before getting hidden. Also found time to finally ....
January 3
More plasterboarding in the cold store. The interior walls get insulated to separate the cold store from the rest of the house. Over the insulation the plasterboards are fitted. The final piece is over the ....
January 2
First job is to paint behind the second column. First coat up and drying. While the paint dries the plasterboard is installed (uninsulated as it is the cold room). Some of the offcuts are used ....
December 30
Time to hit the cold store. I need to finish the preparation for the tidy up of electric cables. All a bit of a mess at the moment and after a chat with Erik when ....
December 28
Yesterday and today I have been wiring the upstairs circuits to the first socket or switch so that all the circuit tails are fed to the distribution board. I will finish the circuits later but ....
December 23
Last day before Christmas. Tomorrow it is shopping and preparing for the festive break. Gave myself the whole day to install the four final ground floor circuits (including switching to the first floor). It went ....
December 19
More rearranging. Philippe continues to volunteer to help me in the house so today we moved one of the stacks of plasterboard up to the first floor and some to the upper mezzanine. Just enough ....