Garden Room floor Sanded!
Today we hired an industrial floor sanding machine. The sanding system is a drum about 250mm (10inches) wide and the heavy weight of the sander really made quick work of…
Windows – Oak Frames
We have started sorting out the planks of Oak and selecting the best ones to do the frames in the windows. The four back windows are very similar in size…
Hot Water Tank installed
We have the hot water tank installed! It was a tight fit in the corner and in hindsight the design of the walls in that corner, should have allowed for…
Hot Water!
We continue to route and connect pipes together in and around the hot water tank corner. We made a drain valve connection with a piece of hose pipe and sealed…
Hot Water!
We started laying in the various water pipes in and around the hot water tank. It is quite a tight space to route all the pipes like for example the…
Garden Room Floor!
Yesterday we finished the last piece of work needed to be done on the floor in the Garden Room. The central section where the Earth Tubes comes up out of…
Garden Room Paint Everywhere!
Our Garden Room, over the last three days, have been painted with various layers of white emulsion. The bottom (first) coat was using a cheap B&Q matt emulsion as the…
New Floor is Laid
The Sun Corridor now has a new floor! In order to make as much of the space useable as possible for each of our rooms, we brought up the level…
Preparations of our Temporary Living Quarters
we had to change our priorities just a little bit and started the preparations for making our temporary living quarters. We cleared all the remaining bits and pieces from the…
Clean Up!
We spent the morning cleaning the whole garage, vacuuming all the floors, walls and windows. We are getting ready for the painting task.