Windows! and Electrical Distribution Panel 1
A combination of lots of issues including weather, lack of approval and my back has kept me at home planning for some time but today I am on site again for the first time since ....
Category: Utility
Utility areas including the cold room
External Concreting
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 ....
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 ....
Painful Errors
Because I am taking a relaxed approach and only visiting on occasion and not daily, errors begin to occur. When I arrived today I was upset to see what looks to be cement used as ....
Windows 1
As I am taking a more relaxed approach at the moment I did not arrive until nearly midday to find that the wall had been finished. cleaned and tiled. Henri will, be happy as it ....
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 ....
Replacing the Duff Cable
After installing all the main cables underground, I received a call from the supplier to say that the manufacturer had condemned one of the cables as they had uncovered a manufacturing fault. Great! They shipped ....
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 ....