Roselea

Category: Holiday

  • Christmas Break

    We have put up our tool belts, spirit level back up on the wall, closed off the glue bottles and hang up our worksuits for a couple of weeks!
    It is our real first proper holiday virtually for the whole year so we will enjoy the Christmas and New Year celebrations by having a load of relaxing times and party, party, party .. NOT!
    We will resume work on the first full week of 2025, on 6th January!

  • Christmas Break !!

    We are having a well earnt break from our house building project, to celebrate Christmas and to be with our friends and family.
    We decided to have a three week break so we return back to work on 15th January 2024!
    But, as usual, we are continually looking at alternative technologies, updating equipment like for example a new 3D printer and a new machine called a Pick & Place, or P&P for short, to help produce complete electronic control boards!
    No Rest for Us !
    Smile!

  • Seven Day Break!

    We have just returned from a week of visiting several members of our family. Our tour was 500miles in a loop! We even stopped at IKEA to examine lots of different household furniture for ideas to when we are ready to populate our new house!!

  • Christmas and New Year Holidays Break plus Recovery from Health Issue

    We are having our usual Christmas and New Year holiday break again this year but also taking time off for one of our work crew to recover from an minor health issue, a long-awaited hernia operation that was delayed because of the Covid saga. This means that much of January will be gone before we can resume the heavy work of building the internal framework of the rooms on the Ground Floor.
    We will have to order more timber soon as we have already used, probably about 50% of our supply of 63mm CLS planks. But there is a world wide shortage of timber and that is pushing up the prices quite sharply and it is likely that we will see 20% price hikes in the new year. O Boy!
    But that’s life!
    So wishing everyone a good break yourselves and have a Merry Christmas!

    P.S. Stephen thought he had posted this before Christmas!

  • While We Wait for the Glass!

    The last two weeks have been a break away from our House Building project! We decided to have a complete change of scene while we wait for the glass window units to be manufactured and delivered (target date is the week beginning the 28th September).

    BUT ..

    It wasn’t a complete removal from the actual building work processes themselves! We went to help our Uncle to enlarge the door to their under stair storage area. A case of cutting out concrete breeze blocks, a solid steel reinforced lintel, inserting of a new steel lintel, wooden framework and a new door! All filled, smoothed, painted and polished!

    While We Wait for the Glass!

    New-Cupboard

    While We Wait for the Glass!

    Inside


  • December Holiday Rest Period

    We decided to take a break away from our building work and relax, to recover some of our mental balance and stamina. We did do some other little jobs that has been hanging about for a while, like tidying up the workshop, recycling some electrical equipment, install new lighting and of course, organise for Christmas too.
    We planned to restart work in the New Year after we have visited family down in London, to tackle the next job of producing the Oak Guttering for the main house.

  • Christmas Break!

    It is Christmas!!

    We have blitzed the whole workshop, to tidy it up and make it as clean as possible, ready for having our family around to celebrate this festive moment of the year!

    Workshop-cleaned-and-Transformed

    Workshop-cleaned-and-Transformed

    The completed “P” rafters, all eleven (and one little chunk of timber!), are now outside in the middle of the house, all covered up in two layers of tarpaulin to keep them dry and in the new year, we will resume work and install them!!

    P-Rafters-waiting-to-be-installed

    P-Rafters-waiting-to-be-installed

    Also during this holiday break, we will do other small jobs like repairing tyres on the flatbed trolley, unblock guttering and downpipes (on our temporary storage building) and anything else that has been put off all year! Eeek!

    So Merry Christmas!

  • A Little Break

    we are having a little break to recharge our batteries and do other things for the next week.