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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: Day 12 – More Digging and Another Wall Down

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Reed Lathe and Plaster WallNot 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 house are incredible, being constructed of Norfolk reeds, lathes and plaster. You can see in the picture just how amazing these look, and can even see the reed heads still on the reeds themselves.

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Reece Ritchie – Actor & Film Star Visits Waterloo Farm

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Reece Ritchie - ActorSmall 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 Reece Ritchie, who happened to catch us on a short break from digging out earth and eating some much needed fish and chips!

Reece is a top guy and very down-to-earth and real. I guess that’s what you get from coming from good ‘ol Norfolk! (Though I should probably say Suffolk)

Reece has starred in the BBC’s Silent Witness and also The Bill for ITV.  He has also starred in the movies, as Moha in 10,000 BC, and The Lovely Bones and Triage. He has also just finished filming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, a film based on an old computer game, recognised by old gamers like me!

You can see the official trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time below:

It was great to meet Reece, and I could not resist a taking a quick picture of him with Liam ‘pretending’ to help push a wheel barrow of hard core back into the Farm. Right…back to the wheel barrows!!

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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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