Rain Water Underground Tank Brought Into Operation
Today was a wet day so we decided to work on another task. Something that we could have done much later but we felt that we could make use of…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Today was a wet day so we decided to work on another task. Something that we could have done much later but we felt that we could make use of…
At last, we can actually see the Larch cladding timber going up on our walls this week! But first, we made a couple of templates; a lap joint cutting guide…
This week, we finished waterproofing our dunking trough, with two layers of thin plastic sheeting we found in the shed and then covered over with a left-over length of our…
Today, we reinstalled our usual Sun Shield over the long corridor of our temporary living quarters. It was quite late this year, perhaps we got used to the heat coming…
The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…
The task of rebuilding the Berm continued over Monday, Tuesday and finally Wednesday. We wanted the Berm to be high enough to stop the majority of the rain water that…
In a very disrupted couple of weeks .. we had steady rain all last week from Tuesday to Friday and some on Saturday afternoon too (a total of about 25mm…
Continuing from Wednesday, with the guttering job done, we got on with installing our oak window frames. Over the next three days, we took each frame, test fitted it (making…
We started the week with the continuing task of cleaning the gutters and fascia. After being exposed to the sun and weather for at least 5 months and in some…
We started our week on a Tuesday after having a day off for Easter. We finished off applying the black yukky mastic stuff to the top edge of the Slate…