Experimental Resurfacing Of Loke Project All Finished
This week, our neighbour finished off laying out the new surface in our Loke, all filled in with the asphalt recycled material. More compacting was required and the heavier petrol…
Ground Floor Walls Being Filled with Recycled Polyurethane Foam Boards
During the last two weeks, starting last Thursday 4th March and on several days, interspersed with other tasks, we have been filling up the ground floor outer walls with approximately…
The Loke Scraped, Hardcore Laid and First section of Grid Completed with Crushed Recycled Asphalt
On several days over the previous couple of weeks, our Loke has been scraped down the middle to remove 2.5metres wide strip of old surface and grass plus dirt. That…
Homemade Foam Board Shredder
Today, we thought we had better build a quick “Home-made” foam board shredder so we can deal with all the millions of pieces of cut-offs we will be generating from…
Arrival of Eleven Pallets of Timber Sheet Materials
On a few days from Friday 5th March to Thursday 11th March, we had the delivery of a load of sheet wood material of various types. All the material is…
Insulation PU Foam Seconds Arrives on Forty Pallets!
On Friday, saw the arrival of the huge load of “Seconds” PU foam boards, all the way from South Wales where an outfit takes spoiled foam boards from the nearby…
Pallet Fork Attachment for our Mini-Digger
We decided that we needed to construct our own Pallet Forks to enable us to unload the load of Pallets that would be arriving soon, full of PU foam boards.…
Beast from the East MkII Hits
Today, we had a large amount of extra snow dropping on top of the small amount we had yesterday, to make deep drifts of up to a foot deep, window…
Driveway GeoGrid Plastic Modules Arrives for resurfacing the Loke
Today, the first pallet of these plastic grid modules that helps retains the gravel and other crushed stony material has arrived. We ordered one pallet which has 260 individual modules.…
New Wall Hanging Toilet and Frame Arrives for Evaluation
Today saw the arrival of our new toilet and wall frame! We wanted to see and learn all the construction requirements for these wall-hanging toilets designs, like how the cistern…