Clean Up Chore is Done At Last!
We have finally finished sieving the soil, moved the “clean” dirt (huh!) to Mount Sod, and filled 5 large (6cubic yard) skips of rubbish!!
The Massive Soil Works starts …
We start the huge task of sorting out the site, ready for the main house to be built upon! The soil is a real mess of old garden rubbish, DIY…
Submitted House design to Building Control
We went into Great Yarmouth this afternoon and handed over the package of our construction plans and structural calculations to our new Building Control inspector Kenny Brown. The package contained…
Tidying Up site
We have been tidying up the whole site ready for the start of phase 3 – the construction of the main house. The site clearance operation has been seeing various…
Octagonal Flower Bed finished!
The new raised Flower Bed is finally completed today. The Octagonal shaped constructed of dry bricks (without cement), a mixture of concrete driveway bricks and standard clay bricks. There are…
Roof Repair on Store room
We took the opportunity to put on a new roof covering on our store room this weekend. It was lovely weather and quite calm thus avoiding the problem of 10metres…
Structural Calculations with the Engineer
Finally, the structural calculations I have been performing over the last year have been submitted to our structural engineer. Paul Burrell visited us this morning and I handed the calculations…
Waste disposal
Another of those inevitable expenses involved in demolition work is disposing of the waste. Now that the demolition is complete we have to get rid of all the waste. There…
Chimney Demolition
We have now demolished the chimney stack, which was the last of the demolition tasks! We looked at the structure of the cimney and it was obvoius that it was…
More demolition of the remaining structures.
Shaun has carried on his good work and demolished the outside loo and a old greenhouse.