The moment the world has been waiting for:
December 19, 2007
December 14, 2007
Oh boy, oh boy - a house has appeared in our garden - from behind a pile of scaffolding. Two blokes came in the morning and before you could say monkey wrench the scaffolding was in neat piles in the garden.
Photos of the transformation. It was a really exciting day - I did no work at all, just kept dotting in and out of the caravan getting in the way.
The
Another very exciting thing happened while I was away today, inspecting my new job at Norwich City Hall - I came back to find a front door! Screwed onto the house! I'll take a picture tomorrow morning. That'll please my mum! Also Mo, as I can now do the much heralded video walk-through of the house and put it on YouTube with a link from the blog.
Photos of the transformation. It was a really exciting day - I did no work at all, just kept dotting in and out of the caravan getting in the way.
The
Another very exciting thing happened while I was away today, inspecting my new job at Norwich City Hall - I came back to find a front door! Screwed onto the house! I'll take a picture tomorrow morning. That'll please my mum! Also Mo, as I can now do the much heralded video walk-through of the house and put it on YouTube with a link from the blog.
December 06, 2007
Rendered!
Oh yes, we have a whole house which is the colour of sponge cake mix. Victoria sponge that is. There are some darker places where the last bits haven't dried yet - takes about a week. It goes on a bit like cake mix too - they put it on like a small child would plaster the nursery wall - a lot drops off. We will be able to grow a lot of lime-loving plants round the house.
Plus this was the second day of the Warmcel brigade shovelling finely shredded newspapers (and apparently Yellow Pages) into the walls. Here's a picture of it as it comes out of the bags.
In the back of this van
there is a piece of kit that you shove the stuff into, one bag at a time.
The POK sort of rubs the compacted stuff between its hands, as it were, and fluffs it up, then it goes down a very long elephant-trunk-grey hose
into the walls through the holes which they cut earlier
There's a lot of standing around waiting for each panel to fill up. These are very big walls.
I am a little concerned to be certain that all the panels really are completely full and I want to be able to check that there has been no settling. I think the best thing, in a couple of days' time, is to put a small hole in the top of each panel and stick my finger in to make sure they are all still full right to the top.
I think they'll be here for a few days yet - they have been here two days and done most of the upstairs. Still got the ground floor walls and the ground floor itself to do.
The house was full of a faint greyness with little piles of fluffed-up Warmcel which had escaped from the elephant trunk
looking like an old lava flow. The chaps like using it because it is completely benign and non-toxix, unlike the mineral wool or glassfibre which they also install.
Anyway these guys were buzzing about inside and Lee and his mate were buzzing about outside - stereophonic, non-matching music from different boom boxes. And the second electrician came too - he spent an hour or so talking through what we want. Gosh and golly electricianing is complicated stuff - all the rules and relgulations, the special fitings for bathrooms, installing TV and satellite and telephone cables, cables to the shed underground, specified minimum and maximum distances, requirements for low-energy fittings, and so on and so on. Anyway we should have a quote for all that stuff soon. Oh yes, AND we want shielded cable to protect from electromagnetic stress if possible too!
R spent the little time he had when not running around after everyone else altering the head of the front door opening to be able to fit the door and a timber door sill it - this involved taking the frame apart and cutting bits off and putting it back together.
My hero!
Oh and it poured down most of the day.....
Me? I made the tea
One last view of the front wall being rendered
Oh yes, we have a whole house which is the colour of sponge cake mix. Victoria sponge that is. There are some darker places where the last bits haven't dried yet - takes about a week. It goes on a bit like cake mix too - they put it on like a small child would plaster the nursery wall - a lot drops off. We will be able to grow a lot of lime-loving plants round the house.
Plus this was the second day of the Warmcel brigade shovelling finely shredded newspapers (and apparently Yellow Pages) into the walls. Here's a picture of it as it comes out of the bags.
In the back of this van
there is a piece of kit that you shove the stuff into, one bag at a time.
The POK sort of rubs the compacted stuff between its hands, as it were, and fluffs it up, then it goes down a very long elephant-trunk-grey hose
into the walls through the holes which they cut earlier
There's a lot of standing around waiting for each panel to fill up. These are very big walls.
I am a little concerned to be certain that all the panels really are completely full and I want to be able to check that there has been no settling. I think the best thing, in a couple of days' time, is to put a small hole in the top of each panel and stick my finger in to make sure they are all still full right to the top.
I think they'll be here for a few days yet - they have been here two days and done most of the upstairs. Still got the ground floor walls and the ground floor itself to do.
The house was full of a faint greyness with little piles of fluffed-up Warmcel which had escaped from the elephant trunk
looking like an old lava flow. The chaps like using it because it is completely benign and non-toxix, unlike the mineral wool or glassfibre which they also install.
Anyway these guys were buzzing about inside and Lee and his mate were buzzing about outside - stereophonic, non-matching music from different boom boxes. And the second electrician came too - he spent an hour or so talking through what we want. Gosh and golly electricianing is complicated stuff - all the rules and relgulations, the special fitings for bathrooms, installing TV and satellite and telephone cables, cables to the shed underground, specified minimum and maximum distances, requirements for low-energy fittings, and so on and so on. Anyway we should have a quote for all that stuff soon. Oh yes, AND we want shielded cable to protect from electromagnetic stress if possible too!
R spent the little time he had when not running around after everyone else altering the head of the front door opening to be able to fit the door and a timber door sill it - this involved taking the frame apart and cutting bits off and putting it back together.
My hero!
Oh and it poured down most of the day.....
Me? I made the tea
One last view of the front wall being rendered
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