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.
Views of the property from the outside
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 ....
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 ....
The Douglas Fir pergolas have arrived together with the roofing materials. The three wheeled forklift was an amazing machine that could turn its wheels through 90 degrees to access difficult positions. Each pergola has been ....
If you have never seen it, this is sand blasting in progress. Jonathan has cleaned the wall (that will be exposed in the Lounge) and is here cleaning up the joists that will remain visible ....
The floor beam on the new concrete pedestal has been bolted with resin. The exiting windows are having their lintels raised and the view of the back of the house starts to take shape. Another ....
Trial holes for installing the sewage (assainissement) system were dug and surprise, surprise they are full of water. Consequently the system cannot be a standard one but instead an electrically driven micro station. Cost will ....
With the floor in, the windows can be started at the back of the house. To get the scaffolding up outside the eventually pathway needed to be part laid. By the end of the day ....
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 ....
The wall rendering is finished. The concrete support is re-shuttered to be raised to the new height. The hole to receive the far end of the new beam has been raised and moved to get ....