Timber Frame Cladding Arrives
Sitting happily at home catching up with paperwork I got an urgent call from my neighbor Andrew. Apparently a lorry had arrived from Estonia with no notice containing our timber cladding of charred and oiled ....
Author: gjj
Attic Floor and Garden Store
Arrived late today and used the morning that remained to move some storage shelves and garden items from the rented storage to the new garden store. Lots of space in both stores now so more ....
Tidying Up
Excellent weather for opening the doors and tidying up the interior before offloading the latest timber delivery. Florent has once again organised the purchase and lent me his lorry to bring it to site. Esteban ....
Earthing
French electrical installations rely on local earthing points. With three main panels (house, PV panels on BBQ and PV panels on car park where the mains supply enters the property) I decided to fit three ....
Staircase 3
As the staircases are prefabricated, the risers are not set to match the difference between the finished floor levels (FFL). So to set the best first and last rises I have put the smaller staircase ....
Staircase 2
We opted for an industrial staircase from Tecrostar in Spain. Our neighbours in Preroux have built a mezzanine and staircase from the same company and we thought it would fit well with the windows and ....
Electrical Distribution Panel 2
Back to the distribution board. The back for the main isolating switch has arrived and (I thought) it would be a five minute job to fit it in. Wrong! Working with 16mm cable is not ....
Staircase 1
I had to coordinate Florent to come to site with his Manitou extending forklift to get the staircases into the house. They arrived flat packed and were then deposited outside the gates for me to ....
Electric Gates 2
By lunchtime, Erik had finished the installation. By then I had installed the lock plate for the new Yale lock and provided a temporary electrical supply for him to test the doors. So finally, we ....
Electric Gates 1
Back or no back, the gates needed to be installed. Actually the medication has made me much more mobile but I am still cautious about doing anything that exerts too much strain on it. Eric ....