Dad Blight doing all the monotonous and boring stuff as usual. You're a hero, Dad!


Sam and Kadesh on the new garage floor.


The first section of the floor is down. The concrete was poured on Friday. One more section to go!

The Garage Floor

The concrete truck




Smoothing the concrete

Preparing for the Floor

The builders on site



Filling inside the foundation with sand to raise the floor level


Compacting the sand



The plumbers have been and put in the underfloor pipes for drains, toilets, baths, showers, etc. Now they are laying polystyrene for insulation.




Laying reinforcing for the concrete pad that will be our floor.

Credits





Polystyrene and reinforcing all laid in the lounge area.

Digging a Trench for the Phone and Electricity Cables

Uncle Peter and Ira

The Foundation

The foundation ready for the sub-floor work


The foundation after the boxing has been pulled away

The boxing into which the builders pour the concrete foundation

Sorry, you're best to scroll all the way down and read up from the bottom. I've loaded everything backwards so the most recent is at the top.

Marking Out the House Site

Making REALLY sure

Double checking

Marking it out

Measuring out

Checking the plans

House Plans and Profiles

South side

North side


North East side


Upstairs


Downstairs

History

November 2007 - Our house plot from Peter and Helen's nearly completed house

More gardening

Mid 2007 - livestock added

March 2007 - Garden's begun

Early 2007 - a new access road, Providence Drive

December 2006 - Digging finished, we sowed grass and began fencing



October/November 2006 - Digging in progress

August 2006 - the digger came in and started turning the land over



February 2006 - this is what we bought