When I wrote the last blog in September 2010, I thought it would be a couple of weeks to finishing. Unfortunately that proved not to be the case. We had a number of delays caused by contractors not being available…
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Feeling warmer
We are now well into September and are only a week behind schedule – which for a building project is pretty good! Linking the different needs of various sub-contractors has proved challenging. One lot of subbies needs another lot to…
Halfway through?
End August 10. We are supposed to be halfway through the process now and the work has started. I’m not sure that we are halfway through the work yet and the bank holiday has intervened. So far we have got…
Delayed Start = Time in the Garden
We got word this week that the sub-contractors being used to do the external insulation are not ready to start next Monday & there’ll be a two week delay. We had intended to finish clearing out everything in readiness by…
This is the hard bit…
We thought we’d share with you the nightmare that is sorting out and storing the stuff in the workshop. This is the treasured collection from years of not throwing anything away because it will probably come in useful. We still…
Finally ready to go
This month ( June ) we have been finalising the arrangements for our new custom made windows. Al from Footprint brought round a sample of the new windows. We were pleased that they seemed to have been able to make separate…
First the vegetable planting, then we’ll tackle emptying the workshop
April – The estimate arrived but we still had questions as there were no drawings or detailed schedules such as for the replacement windows. These are being specially made to replicate the look of the 1800 windows but will be…
What about the wisteria?
At the beginning of March we had a massed visit of builders/sub-contractors to give us the final estimate of prices.
This made us realise some potential issues such as the climbing plants on the house walls. We will have to…
We finally got survey results… we could make our Georgian detached house more energy efficient than most modern houses
8 Jan 10. We finally got survey results – a bit of a mixed bag in terms of clarity. We had some trouble following the different docs although we got the general idea. Our house came out as a D…
200 year old cottages are small and dark enough without shrinking them by 3ins on each wall
On 3rd December we had a site visit from the surveyor appointed by Refit West – Matt – and two others from his team. He spent a couple of hours here talking to us and looking at the house. The…
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