New house build - Luxembourg
Discussion
Erm, when it's finished? 
DAY 1:
3 guys with spades and 2 barrows filled a massive skip with hard, heavy clay soil and turf.
What will be my new parking space area +/-12m2. It will be laid with the lattice type concrete slabs (Rassengitter in Cherman), where grass can grow in the open parts of the lattice.
Decking area, which will be +/-12m2
Shed base, not very big at +/-3m2 - but big enough to get gardening tools out of the garage, giving me more space for road bicycles!
DAY 2, beginning:
Goods delivery, by a very helpful driver who craned the bags and concrete forms in from the street, putting them exactly where the gardeners needed them.
It's currently 25C with a slight breeze, and it'll stay like that until the end of next week.
The guys are going to need that breeze or they'll roast. They're proper hard grafters!
DAY 1:
3 guys with spades and 2 barrows filled a massive skip with hard, heavy clay soil and turf.
What will be my new parking space area +/-12m2. It will be laid with the lattice type concrete slabs (Rassengitter in Cherman), where grass can grow in the open parts of the lattice.
Decking area, which will be +/-12m2
Shed base, not very big at +/-3m2 - but big enough to get gardening tools out of the garage, giving me more space for road bicycles!
DAY 2, beginning:
Goods delivery, by a very helpful driver who craned the bags and concrete forms in from the street, putting them exactly where the gardeners needed them.
It's currently 25C with a slight breeze, and it'll stay like that until the end of next week.
The guys are going to need that breeze or they'll roast. They're proper hard grafters!
DAY 2 - End
Three Montenegrin chaps worked really hard again today. They're good at cleaning up after themselves, too, which is great.
All materials are now on site, including the composite decking. I'm pleased to see the boss bought the hidden fixings for the planks.
Concrete pads for decking supports are underway.
All the concrete edging is cemented in for my parking space.
Lots of filling in required now, and tamping down before a pallet and a half of the concrete lattice slabs are laid, then infilled with soil ready for grass seed.
Three Montenegrin chaps worked really hard again today. They're good at cleaning up after themselves, too, which is great.
All materials are now on site, including the composite decking. I'm pleased to see the boss bought the hidden fixings for the planks.
Concrete pads for decking supports are underway.
All the concrete edging is cemented in for my parking space.
Lots of filling in required now, and tamping down before a pallet and a half of the concrete lattice slabs are laid, then infilled with soil ready for grass seed.
Day 3 end
Parking space is finished. Lattice bits just need to be backfilled with soil then I can chuck some grass and wild flower seeds down.
Concrete base points for the composite deck are complete.
To do:
Backfill soil in the parking area
Build deck
Poor concrete slab for shed base
They said they’ll be done by Thursday!
Me:
Erect shed
Good bunch of guys doing the work and they clean up after each day’s work very well.
Parking space is finished. Lattice bits just need to be backfilled with soil then I can chuck some grass and wild flower seeds down.
Concrete base points for the composite deck are complete.
To do:
Backfill soil in the parking area
Build deck
Poor concrete slab for shed base
They said they’ll be done by Thursday!
Me:
Erect shed
Good bunch of guys doing the work and they clean up after each day’s work very well.
Day 5 - End
The 3 guys have finished their work!
17 sq.m. parking space added
10 sq.m. composite deck and a concrete slab for my shed…. Neighbour’s cat, Charlie, surveying in the background. And yes, he left his footprints in the wet slab the night before.
The tube sticking out of the slab is my electric feed: 400V. Once the shed’s in place (planning 17th for that as I’m committed elsewhere this weekend), I can get a sparky in to fit a consumer board, light point and indoor and outdoor power points.
The 3 guys have finished their work!
17 sq.m. parking space added
10 sq.m. composite deck and a concrete slab for my shed…. Neighbour’s cat, Charlie, surveying in the background. And yes, he left his footprints in the wet slab the night before.
The tube sticking out of the slab is my electric feed: 400V. Once the shed’s in place (planning 17th for that as I’m committed elsewhere this weekend), I can get a sparky in to fit a consumer board, light point and indoor and outdoor power points.
Shed is up!
Strange instructions to follow, a few bits of fettling to resolve some wonky, shonky panels, and it’s done.
View from the patio:
Warped door requires latch at the base to close it properly.
Parking space is big enough for the Octavia…..
So the Fiesta, soon to be Taigo, is fine …..
And now that’s all done, the decorators are coming in tomorrow to repaint CC#1 bedroom, so it’ll be a surprise for her on her return from Uni in 2 weeks.
Strange instructions to follow, a few bits of fettling to resolve some wonky, shonky panels, and it’s done.
View from the patio:
Warped door requires latch at the base to close it properly.
Parking space is big enough for the Octavia…..
So the Fiesta, soon to be Taigo, is fine …..
And now that’s all done, the decorators are coming in tomorrow to repaint CC#1 bedroom, so it’ll be a surprise for her on her return from Uni in 2 weeks.
I should get some new pics up.....
Grass and wild flowers are doing well on the new parking space area, which is now home to my new Taigo (Fiesta's gone) that I collected in July. Love it so far.
Hardwood framed furniture purchased from Auchan has been used a great deal on the new deck. I get to enjoy late afternoon / evening sun when I've finished work.
Mrs RC loves the shed which she must keep tidy!
I think we're the only people in the neighbourhood who feed the local bird population, so the sparrows, great tits and blue tits get through about 6 feeders full of peanuts a week. Just as well Mrs RC buys these in 20kg sacks!
Hedges all round underwent their late summer cutting (beech on side and front, laurel across the rear), which was about 24 collapsible garden containers of trimmings to recycling.
Having experienced quite some rain in the past weeks, the grass (weeds!) is now green again, and the bare patches that are shown above following the landscaping works earlier this year has new grass.
After this rain, we experienced some areas where a green slimy fungus developed in some patches. Mrs RC investigated and treated those, which have now gone.
Heating: usual b
ks from the much hated (in our house) ASHP.
All our hot water should be coming from solar panels, but we were finding that despite being in full sun all day, we didn't always have hot water in the evenings, so the ASHP / water heater were kicking in and shouldn't have been.
We still find all the stupid levels of machinery and online information for trouble shooting to be really quite ste, so of course, Genista have been out today to check settings, which they've "adjusted". The ASHP now won't kick in until will switch off Summer settings. That'll probably cost me another EUR200 for today, plus an unknown amount for EUR for electric used by the ASHP. Ho, hum.
Grass and wild flowers are doing well on the new parking space area, which is now home to my new Taigo (Fiesta's gone) that I collected in July. Love it so far.
Hardwood framed furniture purchased from Auchan has been used a great deal on the new deck. I get to enjoy late afternoon / evening sun when I've finished work.
Mrs RC loves the shed which she must keep tidy!
I think we're the only people in the neighbourhood who feed the local bird population, so the sparrows, great tits and blue tits get through about 6 feeders full of peanuts a week. Just as well Mrs RC buys these in 20kg sacks!
Hedges all round underwent their late summer cutting (beech on side and front, laurel across the rear), which was about 24 collapsible garden containers of trimmings to recycling.
Having experienced quite some rain in the past weeks, the grass (weeds!) is now green again, and the bare patches that are shown above following the landscaping works earlier this year has new grass.
After this rain, we experienced some areas where a green slimy fungus developed in some patches. Mrs RC investigated and treated those, which have now gone.
Heating: usual b
ks from the much hated (in our house) ASHP. All our hot water should be coming from solar panels, but we were finding that despite being in full sun all day, we didn't always have hot water in the evenings, so the ASHP / water heater were kicking in and shouldn't have been.
We still find all the stupid levels of machinery and online information for trouble shooting to be really quite s
te, so of course, Genista have been out today to check settings, which they've "adjusted". The ASHP now won't kick in until will switch off Summer settings. That'll probably cost me another EUR200 for today, plus an unknown amount for EUR for electric used by the ASHP. Ho, hum.Good to know the new space is working well, not so great that your heat pump is causing yet more pain.
@CdG to offset RC1807's bad experience, ours has been a dream. Works brilliantly in all weathers and costs relative pennies to run, compared with gas. Bar a small commissioning fubar, it's been running perfectly for going on two years now. But it is a bit ugly, you are right.
Watch now as I go home and find it broken down...
@CdG to offset RC1807's bad experience, ours has been a dream. Works brilliantly in all weathers and costs relative pennies to run, compared with gas. Bar a small commissioning fubar, it's been running perfectly for going on two years now. But it is a bit ugly, you are right.
Watch now as I go home and find it broken down...
You can go off some people, G.....
With oil or gas CH, you know what's happening and how to resolve issues much easier.
Our ASHP, with the associated air circulation system, has been a nightmare from day 1.
Reading or translating docs hasn't helped us.
I long for retirement and a collective system in an apartment building that I don't have to worry about.
With oil or gas CH, you know what's happening and how to resolve issues much easier.
Our ASHP, with the associated air circulation system, has been a nightmare from day 1.
Reading or translating docs hasn't helped us.
I long for retirement and a collective system in an apartment building that I don't have to worry about.
RC1807 said:
You can go off some people, G.....
RC1807 said:
With oil or gas CH, you know what's happening and how to resolve issues much easier.
Our ASHP, with the associated air circulation system, has been a nightmare from day 1.
Reading or translating docs hasn't helped us.
What make is yours? Ours is Wolf and the documentation is...okay. Some dodgy translation though too!Our ASHP, with the associated air circulation system, has been a nightmare from day 1.
Reading or translating docs hasn't helped us.
Edited by loudlashadjuster on Wednesday 13th September 16:11
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