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

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Dry Concrete Floor in Family RoomFantastic! 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 (floor insulation), get the UFH laid onto it, and then finish the floor with 75mm of screed. It’s great to think that we will have a modern insulated floor with under floor heating, in a 200 year old farm house!

We also decided to bring forward putting in a couple of extra parking bays as we had some hard core going spare and Liam was still on site with the JCB and we could get rid of the earth with the earth excavated from in the house.

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

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Damp Proof MembraneWell 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 below.

It was incredible to think that the whole amount (over 10 cubic metres of concrete was required – 2 concrete lorries/mixers) and it was all wheel-barrowed in and laser-levelled using a hand tamper. This means we have a single floor level now over the entire downstairs. (Apart from the existing kitchen which already has a DPM and we will keep the radiators in rather than install UFH).  It all went remarkably quickly, and saw the return of Lee Hart from Lamberts and also a few more new Lambert faces in Sean (aka Hoody) and Sam, the Lamberts Engineer who worked hard on the barrows and tamper.

There was no access for Mark and Dale to upstairs today via the normal route, so temporary access was provided through the bathroom window, which you can see Tammy climbing down from!

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

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Sand Carpet!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 Farm. It has been a phenomenal two weeks of blood, sweat and at times, near tears! But it has been extremely rewarding to, and I can honestly say I would not have missed it for the world!

The ‘hard core Saturday’ saw tons of hard core being wheel barrowed back in! This then gets compacted using a ‘Whacker’, which I have to say is actually good fun, leaving the ground very hard. Next this is covered with sand and lightly compacted to protect a new membrane which will go beneath the concrete pad to form a physical damp proof.

We are planning to have the new concrete floor laid on the 18th December, and so far it is all looking good to hit that date.

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

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Liam Lambert and Micro DiggerLiam 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 finished floor height to allow us to put in all the required sub-floor to meet building regulations. The concrete removal made up about 15-20cm of this, and with a 100sq metres to cover, digging the clay/soil out was going to be impossible with spades.

In reality after starting we discovered that we needed to dig down deeper in places to reach something firm upon which we could start to put hard core back in!

I must confess I started to have real doubts about my sanity watching a digger drive around the inside of my house myself and others wheel barrowed out hundreds and hundreds of barrows of heavy clay and soil. It is really totally surreal.

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Land Drain and More Drain Repairs

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Drain RepairsAll of our money so far in this house seems to be going underground! We discovered that the down pipes off the back off the house were also blocked, so we had no choice but to get these repaired and renewed.

Fortunately Liam Lambert was available once again to help us out, and once again the house looked like a temporary building site with huge piles of sand, stone and shingle standing on the driveway.

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