Now the shuttering of the right hand side of the upstand is going up.
Battle of the bulge - acrows at the base of the shuttering supported by soil to prevent any movement.
... and belt and braces at the top
The windows and doors are all done - apart from the bi-fold doors on the west side
To get the water from the borehole to the plant room you need a trench
Route of the trench for water pipe from borehole to plant room marked out in breadcrumbs, or something
Blue alkathene water pipe from
borehole appearing in what will be the
plant room. Plant room going up at last. Note gap to the left of the plant room - a 3 foot back passage. The original design showed the plant room touching the building corner to corner. Not sure how that would have worked so for a number of reasons is good to have a gap.
Things really steaming along now. Here's underfloor heating going down in the main bedroom on the first floor. Next step will be to pour 70mm of sand cement screed over the top of it.
The first floor screed is being pumped
Round the back of the building, the west side, trenches are being dug for drains - foul and rainwater.
And a soakaway for storm water off the rooves.
The right hand portion of upstand has been poured and gone off to the point that the shuttering can been removed. But it's not fully dried out yet.
What did the slug say to the snail? Big Issue, Big Issue
The Big Issue this week has become, will we have a roof over our heads when the budget runs out, or should we cut our losses and sell up now. It’s proving very difficult to move things along any faster, so the only way of coming in on budget is to leave stuff out. Candidates for the chop are the garden walls, the landscaping, the internal decoration. That’s pretty much it. Everything else is indispensable. We have no choice with such things as water, heating, electricity which means we have to do the retaining wall stuff and the plant room. So it’s good that we’re making progress with them.
And finally
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