Work Continues on Construction of First Floor and Its Floorboards
We resume the week by collecting up the sand we had spread across the kitchen to dry and sieved it through the finest mesh we had and lugged up six…
Fiddly Hidden Elements Completed in First Floor Joist Space
This week was a chop and change kind of week, working on lots of different elements that needed to be done before we can continue in laying down the floorboards…
I-Beams Arrive!
In the morning we prepared an area to store the beams next to the house. The lorry arrived at 1:25pm with the 66 special I-Beams on a open flatbed vehicle,…
Concrete Beams and Blocks Forms the Lid for the Entertainment Room
This week it is the turn of the Concrete Beams and hundreds more of the concrete blocks to be hoisted up and laid out to form the roof of the…
Twelve Triple Glazing Units Arrives and All Are Installed
Very very early Friday, with all the alarms waking everyone, we staggered up to get ready for the arrival of the glass which could arrive as early as 8am! What…
M Section All Done and N Half Way There
On Monday, we resumed work on the M section of the roof. The first job was to cut, trim and seal the fibre-glass trough module to fit the top of…
Starting on M Section
Today, at the start of a new week, under a wet cloudy chilly sky, we finished putting up the tile battens on the M section of the roof, all before…
Video Footage of the Entire Job of Covering Our Roof With Plywood Boards!
Here is a video of our roof being covered up with 12mm thick plywood sheets, starting on the “A” roof section and going around anti-clockwise and finishing on the “P”,…
Roof “Q” Is Completed and “P” Nearly There!
We had a slow start today as we had a series of short sharp thunderstorms and showers with a twirling strong breeze so didn’t get going until about 11am. We…
Progressing Along the Back of the House!
Today, with it being just slightly cooler than yesterday, we started working on covering the roof along the back of the house. We decided that because we could access any…