Category: Orders and Procurement

Early this morning, the last of our building material arrives! At 8:51am, the lorry came reversing down our Loke, loaded with all our timber planks! They were: 4 large pallets…

This afternoon, the cement boards, 70 sheets of 10mm thick by 2400mm x 1200mm, arrived and unloaded onto another prepared patch of ground. In fact, we counted 73 sheets! It…

This morning, we suddenly heard a “beep” “beep” while we were still indoors and discovered that the next delivery load of building material was arriving! Quick! Put on Shoes! Rush…

 Today, we had our first delivery of the huge order of building materials we got coming, namely the 300 sheets of the 12mm plywood. It should have been 330 sheets…

This morning, we had the confirmation of prices for the rest of the building material for constructing the exterior skin of the house. Nearly everything needed to build the complete…

Today, at last, we have started the ordering process! We have got the last of the prices in and we have selected our suppliers. The first item ordered is 320 sheets…

 Over the last couple of days, we have been receiving a number of quotes for our materials. Today, we had a good price from our own local timber merchant (in…

Yesterday, we started the process of asking for prices for our material we need. The timber quotes have gone off to lots of suppliers, mostly in Norfolk as timber is…

Yesterday and early this morning, we carried on with the analysis of the Sky Light module and what it needs. We were discussing moisture control and making sure we can…

We continued with the task of picking out all the individual pieces of the roof structure, completing the analysis on the structural beams (ridge, hip and valley beams). These beams…