External Ground Levelled Continues
Today, the work of smoothing out the ground around the outside of the house continues, working alongside the Garage and the side door of the house. Then, around the corner,…
Levelling Soil Around the House!
Today, before the steel arrived, the soil around the perimeter of the house and it’s wall, continued to be levelled, covering up the rainwater pipework and making it smooth and…
Last Stretch of Pipework Completed
We finished off the installation of the pipes (running around the whole perimeter of the house) that [will] collect the rain water off the roof. The last stretch is along…
Clearing Away Left Overs of Floor Slab Formation
These last few days, we have been clearing and tidying up the left overs bits and pieces created from the formation of the Floor Slab a week ago. All the…
Tidy Up After Floor Slab Creation!
Today, in lovely sunshine instead of the wet rainy day we had yesterday (typical!!), we started the tidying up task after the concrete has set enough overnight, for us to…
Floor Slab is Poured!
What A Day! 7 AM We started at 7am at the crack of dawn to clear away as much as possible the rain water still puddling on the DPM plastic…
Rain, Rain, Rain – Before Floor Slab is Poured!
We woke up to the news that we had well over 10mm of rain overnight, plus the 5mm we had the day before and thus making 15mm of rain! Oh…
Day 2 of Installing the Pipework for Rainwater off Roof
This afternoon, we continued with installing of the pipework running around the perimeter of the house, connecting to the downpipes from the roof and the guttering. We went along the…
Installing Pipework for Rainwater off the Roof and Guttering
Today, while we are waiting for the arrival of the ready mixed concrete on Monday, we carried on with the preparation and installation of the pipework running around the perimeter…
Laser Level Check and Final Adjustments of Cellular Framework of Floor Slab
This afternoon, we went around checking the height of all our cellular framework that divides up the Floor Slab. It is rather satisfying that we didn’t get more than 10mm…