After our conclusion of the slates on the roof (the front porch section) on Monday, we finished dismantling of all the remaining platform modules apart from two full height modules that we managed to move inside the house and a further three modules were cut down to provide a new lower working platforms. We then […]
It was another week of a mixed bag of jobs and tasks, but we made progress on the guttering, oak planks for our windows and did some site clearance too. The first job of the week was to correct a problem with our Downpipe channels where the bottom base board had warped. We basically clamped […]
A week of a mixed bag of lots of little tasks, jobs and errands, with a mixed bag of super-hot days, thunderstorms and a cool damp day to finish the week! For the first job on Monday was to finish as much as possible the of the ‘P’ section of the roof, putting on several […]
For the rest of the week, from Wednesday lunch time to Saturday (with some interruptions), we got all the platform modules moved around to the next section of the house to work on. These modules have been up for about a year now, but at last we have moved them to now cover the roof […]
After the UK Mail courier driver had smashed our driveway post and ripped a section of our fencing, we managed to find another post, this time a solid concrete post that we had lying around and replaced the wooden one. Then carefully reattached the plastic webbing fence to the new post, pulling tight and trying […]
This afternoon, we moved all the remaining 63mm CLS Timber from its original pallet stack situated near our Loke and put the lot inside the house under a tarpaulin tent cover. We also moved all the untreated 100mm by 50mm regularised timber lengths from the swimming lane and put them together with the rest of […]
Today, we finished off creating the new Covered Storage Area while it was raining gentle showers all day. A chest high line of “arms”, six of them, are now mounted and braced so we can load it up with miscellaneous lengths of timber. The three sleepers on concrete blocks underneath will take all the remaining […]
Today, in the morning, we did some odd jobs that were left over from the weekend, tidied up the workshop, repaired a puncture in one of our tyres for our medium flatbed trolley and service our air pump that provides oxygen to our septic processing unit. In the afternoon, we decided that we would make […]
Today, while Shaun is still on light duty as instructed by our nursing team, we have been doing little odd jobs around the site that needed doing. Our temporary (now 9 months old!) tarpaulin cover over the 89mm CLS timber stack needed reinforcing on the wooden struts as the single screw broke in the strong […]
Today, we went outside, all kitted out in thermals and work clothes for the first time in weeks and tackled some jobs around the site that needs to be done. The first little job was to repair the tarpaulin cover over our stack of 89mm CLS timber where bits of the temporary wooden framework have […]