The first floor roof has been on for a week and, with the garage, they look good and watertight. The joinery build-out of parapets, walls and house front is done and its now all about the insulation and cladding. This is gonna be a looong job as it needs: steel plates to the wall to take the vertical weight, 150mm insulation, breather membrane, jesus bolts, vertical battens, scalloped horiz batterns, fly screen, mesh and we then get have to measure the corten cladding to be cut and shaped off-site (4 wks).
The soil pipes and bathroom ventilation systems are fully installed from the undercroft thru the first floor roof. Electrics are on hold pending Lois engaging.
The garage is looking rather cool, with the ceiling boarded and plastered, and 2 coats of paint throughout. Ang keeps saying ‘its only a garage’ .. sigh, the sheer naivety of her not understanding the importance of the toy-box.
Its become clear the program is now over a month late from the original schedule made in march, c’est la vie. Alan, the site-manager has booked his xmas dinner with us. It means we have all the exterior cladding work going on into the autumn .. but then surely it won’t be as wet as the summer .. hmmm. The other implication is we’ll – or more likely I’ll be living in the static through the winter and we wont get into the house ’till the spring. More positively we are making progress with the second stage of the build going on in parallel with the cladding. Lots of decisions on the fit-out are now arising, from toilets thru skirting.
My sanity is maintained as I write this in the dry sun, having escaped for a week into Ibiza (for the second time!).
No pics this post .. its too miserable looking at a v wet site.