Saturday 12th October 2013 / 12:08
New 9500 btu radiator fitted.
3 Floor tiling
Sunday 20 July 2014 / 1327
Fixing a pipe which I drilled into by mistake.
2 Plastering
Monday 2nd September 2013 / 1900
William’s lads have delivered the materials for the plastering.
2 Window sill
August 2013
Oak window sill using a piece of oak William gave me. The edge has been rounded using the router. Window sills need to be in before plastering.
Delivery of materials
Friday 20th July 2012 / 09:30
William’s been and picked up the insulation so we’re going to unload it now.
Materials
Friday 20th July 2012 / 13:28
William’s got the wood from Totton Timber and we’ve unloaded it. Originally the chipboard was going to float on top of the insulation, but because the area is so large and there will be some point loads, such as stud walls, I’m going to lay joists allowing for 300 mm of insulation to go between. The insulation will go between the joists and the chipboard will still rest on the insulation, but it will be firmer.
So, we’ve got 20 sheets of insulation 2400 x 1200 x 100, 40 sheets of 22 mm chipboard 2400 x 600 and about 60 m of 45 x 95 CLS timber.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 09:19
The great day has come when we lay the new concrete floor. William’s sent Orion and Gary round and there’s Trev and myself to help. Trev couldn’t wait to destroy what was remaining of the bit where the toilet was.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 10:14
Gary uses the Whacker Plate to compress the base.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 12:10
Trev and I are tasked with ‘knocking up’ which means mixing the concrete. It’s four shovels of sand and gravel to one of cement. You can get three batches like that in the cement mixer at a time. It’s quite hard work shoveling off the back of the lorry.
We fill a wheel barrow with wet concrete and it gets wheeled in through the front door over wooden boards through the house and then poured in wherever Orion says it should go.
About a third of the final thickness of concrete is put down and then the reinforcing mesh is laid over the top.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 13:14
Top layer is put on top of the mesh, leveled and smoothed with a float.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 16:03
Only a small amount left to do now.
Concrete floor
Friday 22nd June 2012 / 18:11
The pipe for the toilet to plug into is now surrounded by lovely concrete.
Preparation
Monday 23rd April 2012 / 19:41
Came home to find this wall had been knocked down in preparation for the installation of steel #3.
Preparation
Tuesday 24th April 2012 / 19:54
Load bearing stud wall and other brickwork removed, acro props taking the load.
Conservatory wall
Saturday 21st April 2012 / 09:50
The start of the wall.
Windows
Friday 20th April 2012 / 14:25
Side window.
Conservatory wall
Friday 11th May 2012 / 15:12
Some relatively good weather so progress is made on the conservatory wall. Concrete block outer, thermalite inner with 100 mm insulation between.
Bathroom walls removal
27th May 2012 / 12:29
The bathroom walls start to succumb to a frenzied attack with the sledgehammer.
Bathroom walls removal
27th May 2012 / 12:49
People cleaning their teeth may experience a gritty sensation.
Bathroom walls removal
Sunday 3rd June 2012 / 16:30
The bathroom is becoming more and more open plan.