Kerbstones 2
While the guys have been installing the kerbstones by the car park and around the house, I have got on with installing the first floor joists.
Category: External
Views of the property from the outside
Kerbstones 1
While the weather is still good, the kerbstones are laid to define the garden boundaries. Oops, this cables should have gone under the kerbs. The new garden gate and the holes for services through to ....
Car Park 12
Day spent aligning panels and screwing them in place to secure them. Then drove around to the other side of the hameau to take a picture of the rear of the house from across the ....
Car Park 11
With Phillipe helping again the morning was spent lifting the final roofing sheets in place together with the ridge. I then played with one of the side panels before getting bored. So in stead of ....
Weekend Flight
Bought a drone to see how to use them and here are my somewhat sorry first attempt with a 720i camera.Poor as they are they do give an idea of the site perspective. External approach ....
Wood Delivery
The wood arrived really quickly to Florent's stores. The oak beams are expected in a few weeks but the rest has arrived. I borrowed one of his vans and made two trips to to move ....
Drilling at Home
The inverters for the photovoltaic panels need to be fixed to the rails on which the panels sit to protect them from the weather. The fittings they sent originally were not correct and they have ....
Fibre Optic Cable
The only gaine (conduit) I installed without pre-wiring was the fibre optic. Issues with Orange (who manage the infrastructure in France) left me with no cable to insert. I have since bought my own to ....
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 ....
External Thresholds
After a bit of going and frying with the windows supplier we finally have agreed sizes for the thresholds for the doors and the large fixed window. Utility door with muck ready to spread, work ....