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As a literal self builder everything delays us, but we continue to slog away.

There is a field where the footpath is going past our build as the farmer won't  clear the proper one.

But, you know you are progressing when the church people on the palm Sunday walk all commented on how much we've done.

 

Since my last update last summer (remember that - heat) when it looked like this.

 

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It now looks like this

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We had a pretty major disaster last Autumn when a 70 mph storm came right over the field and a wall came tumbling down.

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For context that's the wall by HID and dog.

 

To say that was a low point is a huge understatement.

Comments over the dinner table included knocking everything down and reinstating the stables.

The corner was left but we just knocked that down as well and when it was rebuilt then we've only gone up to 5 blocks so it's not such a wind target.

Obviously, in hindsight we shouldn't have built one wall so high with no support and we are now going up one layer at a time all round.

 

This disaster also cost us lots in money as the 'wall' is now on the rubbish heap along with the lintels.

I've not got any photos after it fell as I was just too peed off.

 

We also lost another month because the BCO wanted some technical details of the slab confirmed by the SE as he was concerned that we didn't have the right grade of mesh and it turns out that this was a verbal discussion and I couldn't find anything written down.

It turned out fine, but it took weeks for the SE to get around to confirming this.  It was only when I threatened to go to his office to discuss that they suddenly arrived.

One corner of the site (not yet touched) is clay, everything else is sand and the SE had originally specced for all clay when the BCO said not necessary.

The SE came to site and met with the BCO, but it was all a conversation with no official documentation.

 

To replace the look of the barn we have a sloping flat roof and this middle wall is going to hold the joists for each side.

These are 140 wide rather than 100.

 

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We are looking forward to having the temp window and internal door frames in place soon as that will really start to look like a house.

 

We reckon that at our usual rate of progress that the walls will be up by end Sept.

 

As we want to put the whole roof on at the same time we are going to put up temp joists to ensure that all walls are held together.

 

Then we have a lot more concrete to break and the clay area to consider.

 

Being a hands on builder can be satisfying, but it can also be very stressful and slow.

 

Back again at some point in the future with another update.

 

 

 

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BotusBuild

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You're doing well. When your there every day, or very regularly, you don't see the progress - a bit like watching your own child grow up.

 

The palm sunday walkers noticed the change. The grandparents notice the change in the grandchildren because they don't see them that often.

 

You are progressing, as we progressed, seemingly slowly, but impressively to others who see it occasionally. Keep going.

 

The first 4 years of our build was done at weekends and holidays, and sometimes it was laborious (pun intended), and at other times I took a couple of monthe out in prime building time as I needed a break from it.

 

Looking forward to the next instalment - do you have a planned date by when you'd like to have the roof on? That will make a lot of difference.

LSB

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4 hours ago, BotusBuild said:

You're doing well. When your there every day, or very regularly, you don't see the progress - a bit like watching your own child grow up.

 

The palm sunday walkers noticed the change. The grandparents notice the change in the grandchildren because they don't see them that often.

 

You are progressing, as we progressed, seemingly slowly, but impressively to others who see it occasionally. Keep going.

 

The first 4 years of our build was done at weekends and holidays, and sometimes it was laborious (pun intended), and at other times I took a couple of monthe out in prime building time as I needed a break from it.

 

Looking forward to the next instalment - do you have a planned date by when you'd like to have the roof on? That will make a lot of difference.

The final roof is still a couple of years away.  We broke the conversion down into 3 phases.  The big stables done first, then this end of the build which was pig housing.

The final phase is still standing and is on clay, a case of leave the worse until we have more experience.

 

We live at the site in the host house, this was a barn that we have converted.

 

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