Oct 28th 2020 - Estimations and dumpers
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This week I have been going through each room of the build and looking at what it needs, not furniture, but sockets, lights, floors and painting amongst the list.
I have never in the past appreciated just how much is involved in creating rooms from scratch, despite doing multiple renovations & extensions.
Before I can send off for estimates I still have the family room to complete, I've been avoiding that one as with the kitchen, multiple doors and outside access it will be quite detailed to list.
Then I have to decide where to get estimates from.
Having realised that we will have about 5,000 blocks to put up we are having to rethink our plans. HID was going to do this part, but at 10m2 per day and only 3 days per week to do it this is just not sensible. We will be long retired before even the walls are finished. The walls are going to be clad in some areas and rendered in others so they don't have to be visitor perfect,.
Today, I have sunshine and thunder storms making me wonder how much weather is also going to affect the build.
Being DIY self builders is exciting and something we have wanted to do for 25+ years, largely because of budget, but also because we wanted to build our forever home brick by brick.
I have spent so many hours looking at layouts, thinking about how we live and what we need.
We have 4 children, and as of today, 1 grandchild,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Harith
I don't even know his weight yet as my daughter is still in labour in a hospital in London, not allowed any visitors, including her husband, due to Covid.
But, with a big family we want a biggish house to allow for visitors although a lot of the time many of the rooms will be unused.
I need to motivate myself to kick on with the supplies, at least I am warm, dry and comfortable with a couple of the animals keeping me company.
On Monday this week we bought a dumper truck from a local farm auction.
The plan is to use it for all the outside stuff and then sell once the structure is done to fund other things inside.
It's definitely old (very), but we tried it out and it seems to work well and with 240m2 of floor to dig out to start with and then trenches etc I think we will get very friendly.
This is to be my mode of transport when HID is on the digger.
The farmer next door collected it, now I just have to drive it back from there, about 1/2 mile, so I will have to choose a very quite time, mid afternoon is a good time.
We also bought a new harrow for the fields and I need to take the tractor to collect that.
This one has a key start, there was one with a crank handle, but we felt that we just wouldn't be able to do that when it is cold.
The only trouble is that the barn we are converting is fast filling up with machinery to keep it dry.
Anyway, back to the plans.
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