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Building Works: Day 19 - Dry Concrete, New Partition Wall and Parking

Nigel — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:12:34 +0000

Fantastic! The concrete dried and the Farm has changed in perspective again. Now there is a single floor throughout downstairs the place really seems to have opened up. Now we need to fit the Celotex...

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Building Works: Day 18 - A New Concrete Floor!!

Nigel — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:39:46 +0000

Well a big step in the building project today when the new concrete floor was laid!! I nipped across to the Farm in my lunch break to capture the progress, which I have included in the gallery...

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Building Works: Days 13 to 16 - Including Hard Core Saturday

Nigel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:41:57 +0000

I am now past the worst of the pain, and the body is starting to recover, having gone back to work yesterday! My two weeks of annual leave are now over, having spent 14 days solid working on the...

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Building Works: Day 12 Continues - Another Break Through and Old Partition Wall

Nigel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:28:31 +0000

Mark and Dale have been busy today (this does not imply they are not busy on other days!) with some really noticable results. Firstly the cut through into the master bedroom to create the new...

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Building Works: Day 12 - More Digging and Another Wall Down

Nigel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:56:23 +0000

Not content with continuing to dig out the floors, Mark and Dale have removed another wall upstairs between two bedrooms to even up the size of the rooms. The internal walls in the old parts of the...

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Reece Ritchie - Actor & Film Star Visits Waterloo Farm

Nigel — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:47:26 +0000

Small break in the building works today when a good friend of Liam popped by to check out his new build house which is a stones throw away from the Farm. It turns out that his friend is famous actor...

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Building Works: Day Eleven - Cavalry ‘Lambert’ Arrives with Micro Digger!

Nigel — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:04:48 +0000

Liam arrived with the Lambert Cavalry today and brought along a micro digger for support! The reason for the cavalry was that we discovered we would need to dig down a total of 45cms from the...

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Building Works: Day Ten - Family Room Door Cut Through

Nigel — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:13:40 +0000

Exciting day today as we saw the cut through of the new door way into the Family Room. It was a very messy business in terms of dust, at one stage it looked like the house was on fire with the dust...

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Building Works: Day Nine - ‘Man, whoops, Wall down!’

Nigel — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:09:40 +0000

I think Mark and Dale were getting wall removal withdrawl symptoms, so we agreed to take some more down! (Hey what is another few walls amongst friends?!) The walls in question ‘made...

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Building Works: Days Five to Eight - Concrete Breaking

Nigel — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:08:49 +0000

Phew! What a last few days. I have very few pictures of the last 4 days of work, which actually covers a weekend as well. My friends and family have been phenomenal over this period, but sadly I have...

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