Staircase 2, First Floor Flooring 12
On with the staircase. VIPs (Wiz and Josie) coming Wednesday week so I need to give them some safe access to the first floor. Once the second stringer was in place I turned my attention ....
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First Floor Flooring 12, Workshop Interior 1, Staircase 1
In order to continue with the flooring upstairs I have laid the second plywood sheet for the en-suite but still need some more to trim off the end which is at an odd angle. In ....
Workshop Corner Cladding
The corner of the workshop is now structurally complete and so I have wrapped the membrane over it from the outside. I then added the cladding support battens and starting at the far end, applied ....
Garden Clearance and First Floor Flooring 11
On my mission to clear the garden before Florent returns, I decided to move the doors I recovered from the fire damaged house. They have been leaning against the tree for over a year now. ....
Workshop Refit
The tiles and grouting are set so I have cleaned them down (many were still stained with fire damage and charcoal) and started to replace the items in the workshop. As you can see I ....
First Floor Flooring 10
On my own again with the tilers gone. Took yesterday off after a straight 10 days on site. So it is back upstairs to the first floor oak parquet. An example of how I will ....
Ground Floor Tiling 12
Metawaley grouted as much as he could in the house but ran out of material and my supplier had none left so I have had to order it. He was able to finish the grouting ....
Ground Floor Tiling 11
Monday morning and no translator. we use google translate and get by pretty well.Matetawaley is enamoured with Judith after the excellent dinner we had last night. The shower is built and then tiled around and ....
Ground Floor Tiling 10
It is Sunday morning and the tiling continues. I turn my attention to the corner all in the workshop to develop its structure. no drawings here I am winging it off the top of my ....
Ground Floor Tiling 9
Saturday morning and the tilers arrive. Metawaley (who cannot drive or speak French, in red) and Oury (who can only work on weekends, drives and translates to arabic). I laid out the lines for them ....