After what seemed like an age with very few people onsite, the last month or so has seen a flurry of activity with an all-time maximum onsite staffing level of 5
Very, very tiring trying to stay one step ahead of them with all my bits and pieces that needed doing, chasing up deliveries, re-organising failed deliveries, organising the supply of the correct items and working out what next to do and researching. Why I've not posted an update for a while.
Prime example of numpty suppliers. This is from North West Hardware...avoid them like the plague. I needed a Macclesfield Sill for the inward opening windows. The one they advertised was this
Note the double seals...the critical one being the outermost one. To save time I got them to deliver it to the joinery company making the window for me. Big mistake. They sent this instead and which got fitted to the windows.
North West Hardware's response ? They are the same.
We also set a record for the largest lorry (12.5 tonne) to deliver, reverse and leave without getting bogged down and requiring to be towed out with the digger. That was down to the excellent digger chap removing a load of mud and soil from what turned out to be the original hard approach road to the property. The original plan was to remove the mud and soil and fill in with rubble from the house but he sussed what he'd uncovered and so job done !
In no particular order, base preparation for LOML's orangerie
No hardcore needed as full of stones and rocks fro earlier buildings. 6.8 cu m (and £650 quid lighter in the wallet) of concrete later (a late night for the guys as the lorry was late in arriving plus we had to dumper truck each lot down the long drive) we arrived at this
You might just be able to discern the utilities pipe sticking up (mains and ethernet). Plan is to lay a course of bricks about 1m in from the perimeter, insert the DPM, some insulation and then pour the actual concrete base for the building on top.
I took a template of this arch which I rather liked
then made up a former to match
Hardboard then gets glued and nailed in place, the whole screwed up into the opening et voila
That's the floor supports going down in the kitchen.
and WBP plywood down
I knew that tiles would be expensive. ....first delivery
but had no inkling as to the huge cost of WBP plywood (that floor was just shy of £500
) or the cost of tile cement
The ditch is working well albeit needs a little tweaking with the fall
And because my builder hasn't got any joiners readily available, it was down to me to convert this
to this
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.