I forgot how long it takes to hang a door, I wish Rich was here! Also these doors are ridiculously heavy, 35kg each! I must have moved / handled each door 15 times or more to plane all the sides and get it to fit and then hang it.
Station Road
This is for Mom to keep up to date with what we are doing in the garden & house.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Finished painting front wall
I put the final coat of paint on the front wall, the bits around the porch are temporary till we build the new porch.
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Mixed and poured subfloor
I decided to mix the concrete for our old bedroom subfloor myself as I had lots of bags of leftover sand and stone which I wanted to clear away. The volume ended up being more than I thought. I ended up shoveling 2.8 tons of cement, sand & stone (1:2:4) into the mixer, then barrowing it into the room and leveling it (I forgot to add the weight of the water, so it was a bit more than 2.8 when mixed) .
The good part is I have a lot less materials on the driveway and I was able to get to the front wall to start painting it. I will post a picture of the front wall later.
Monday, September 29, 2014
Front wall rendered
Cupboard doors
Monday, September 22, 2014
Zac's spray-paint stencil desk top
After looking at paterns to paint it I decided to try spay-paint stenciling. After a conversation with David Leicher who gave me some tips we gave it a go and below is the result.
There are a few things I would do differently next time.....but I am not unhappy with the result!
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Soffit boards up
I have put up the soffit boards all in preparation for rendering the front wall. In the picture I have only completed half the soffit.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Extending driveway 2
I forgot to say, Alison laid all the bricks in the picture in the previous post.
Extending driveway
I have had another bit of luck! My neighbours had some work done on their gas tank by contractors and they very kindly offered their digger to me for the weekend, they also said I could use the rest of the space in their skip which was almost empty.
So I have spent the weekend diving up pay off the lawn with the digger, putting it into wheelbarrows and pushing it around to Peter & Ann to put in the skip. After I had filled the skip with lovely top soil Gwyn from down the road comes past and says he will take the top soil!!! If he had come past the day before he would have saved me a lot of barrowing, but I was still very grateful for him to take everything that wouldn't fit in the skip which worked out to be the green dumper trucks full.
Gwyn asked me to connect a electric cooker for him so in exchange I am using his wacker plate (compactor) to flatten the new bit of the driveway.
While this is all happening I am still going as fast as possible to get Zac's room finished which means sanding and painting his floor with for coats in the evenings. I put the last coat on tonight so tomorrow I need to start fitting his skirting boards.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Zac's floor
I have stayed on zac's floor. All screw holes have been filled and the whole floor sanded and I have put the first coat of primer on.
Manifold & screed
The underfloor heating manifold is now assembled and mounted on the wall. It took me forever to pressure test the thing and I flooded the house a bit trying to work out how to do it.
Once the tubing was done and tested I got Jean in to screed the floor and teach me. I was also the laborer and shovelled 2 tons of sand and half a ton of cement into Rosie's mixer then barrowed it into the house for Jean to use. And now I know how to screed a floor!
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Fitting cupboards
I have a new phone which makes it easier to post pictures so hopefully there will be more pictures in future.