External Slabs 7
It's Sunday and I am back again as the tilers insist on working the weekend and I want to oversee what they are doing. Front patio BBQ/Workshop (almost finished) Front bike store. Preparing the rear ....
Category: Bike Store
Bike store at the front of the house
Clearing and Bits And Bobs
Emptied more shelving in the bike store and dismantled and rebuilt it in the workshop. The bike store is now clear and ready for floor slabs. Then did the same in the garden store but ....
Workshop Window and First Floor Flooring 5
Today Florent and his team are back on site for a couple of days to sort out some minor snagging issues. So I have got them to help me fit the large fixed window in ....
Upper Mezzanine Floor 6
Time to move inside and make a start on the floor for the office on the upper mezzanine. First I had to finish securing the oak strengthening beams using the M12 threaded bar. Outside I ....
More Fencing and Floorboards
Dancing posts and gate cemented in. Lead flashing on storage roofs and the final joists are fitted.
Windows 5 (Cills)
With the jointing finished and the embedded bush root finally dead, we were able to cut out the exposed section, drill it and fill it with more herbicide just in case and finish off the ....
Storage
At the moment there is just me and Esteban on site as everyone else is on holiday. Progress has slowed but not stopped. The tiles have been set on the two stores and the bike ....
Garden Stores
Esteban has started to roof the two stores. Exterior and interior views of the rear store for the garden and the front store for the bikes.
Jointing and Joists 2
More progress on the small stores which are almost ready for roofing. They have also moved onto the rear wall which is exciting. The window detail shows we are planning to leave the raw concrete ....
Jointing and Joists 1
After our trip to Sancerre I returned to find that the entire end wall had been jointed and the two stores virtually finished. Looking good. The slightly darker mortar helps the stones to stand out ....