Sand Blasting
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 ....
Category: Lounge
First Floor Joists 3
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 ....
External Concreting Preparation
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 ....
Internal Walls Rendered
With the concrete removed from the walls the team got on with applying a cost of lime based mortar. Not quite finished but it make a huge impact on the inside to have the walls ....
Concrete Floor Goes In
When I arrived on site it was about an hour before the concrete was due to arrive and I found four builders busy on the separation wall which, in a morning, they had just about ....
PV Panels And Another Cable
After pouring the concrete for the lintel above the door, the team got back to floor preparation laying the reinforcing bar for the concrete pour. We wanted to organise it for this week but the ....
More Floor and Lintels
Yesterday we had a visit from the windows supplier to agree the height of the lintels above the new door in the utility room and for the existing windows. Florent can now get on with ....
Ground Floor Begins
Florent and Esteban have levelled most of the floor and have begun to install the insulation over a damp proof course that forms the sublayer of the ground floor. The wooden boards are in place ....
Electrics and External Progress
The temporary barrier between our garden and Henri's has been taken down in preparation for laying the foundations of the wall that has to be built there. So for a while the dogs cannot be ....
Utility Door Opening
The pile of chalk is for blinding the levelled ground but Florent is off site today. Esteban started knocking through the new doorway in the utility room where the old chimney used to be. Meanwhile ....