Garden Wall 1
Our focus switched to the swimming pool over the weekend to agree where the heat pumps and technical areas will go. Yet more underground cables to be laid! The heat pumps will also affect the ....
Our focus switched to the swimming pool over the weekend to agree where the heat pumps and technical areas will go. Yet more underground cables to be laid! The heat pumps will also affect the ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
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 ....
Finally sorted the electrics with the multi-meter. The temporary cable has been run to the future meter box position on the garden wall. There I have connected the three phase supply to one of of ....
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 ....
The tie bar arrived late last night and when I arrived this morning it had already been positioned. I helped with the tensioning but essentially it is done and the remaining wall can be taken ....
Hmm. Still trying to figure out how to connect the temporary supply as there were no instructions with the pre-wired unit. I need my multi-meter to work it all out. Esteban has finished shuttering the ....
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 ....