More Fencing and Floorboards
Dancing posts and gate cemented in. Lead flashing on storage roofs and the final joists are fitted.
Bike store at the front of the house
Dancing posts and gate cemented in. Lead flashing on storage roofs and the final joists are fitted.
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 ....
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 ....
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.
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 ....
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 ....
Where the walls have been cleaned, joints chiselled and jet washed, the team can at last start filling them with the chosen colour mortar. We are using a premixed coloured mortar to give consistency over ....
As I am doing the pergola, Esteban is installing more beams between walls. This time it is for the bike and garden stores that need to be roofed. Roof bracing elements are now going in ....
I turned up late in the morning to find the new beam had been installed and levelled and most of the external concreting had been done. The rear patio. The workshop and BBQ area that ....