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I will probably continue the floor tiling onto that bit.
I will probably continue the floor tiling onto that bit.
uk66fastback said:
Don't. We've done the lack of windows discussion!
Looking good. The Tomb looks longer than the house! Fitting out the internals would be the fun bit for me ... racking, bench etc. Or is that all going to be upstairs? We're you having a lift? I guess not otherwise it'd be fitted already. I wonder if not, why you needed the height downstairs ... ?
Maybe it was discussed earlier in the thread, sorry if I missed it.
It's a very similar length to the house, but the house is twice as wide.Looking good. The Tomb looks longer than the house! Fitting out the internals would be the fun bit for me ... racking, bench etc. Or is that all going to be upstairs? We're you having a lift? I guess not otherwise it'd be fitted already. I wonder if not, why you needed the height downstairs ... ?
Maybe it was discussed earlier in the thread, sorry if I missed it.
I haven't really thought too much about the fit out, other than at the rearmost wall I will have a custom workbench made from wood and a sink in the corner. The upstairs is already fitted out with a lot of storage (all my tools up there at the moment) and the less frequently used stuff will reside up there permanently, keeping the whole of the downstairs apart from the bench, pretty much free.
I am putting in a 2 post lift, I just haven't bought it yet.
All the cladding is now on apart from the side door and a strip above the main door so the scaffolding can finally be dropped, almost a year after it went up! Really pleased with the final finish, it was fairly expensive, and took a lot longer to fit than I anticipated but it's worth it.
uk66fastback said:
That exterior is looking very good Muncher, was wondering when we'd see an update. Where are we on the inside?
Thanks. The inside hasn't really changed, my priority is to get the patio finished and the lawn sieved (a massive task) and levelled so that I can sow grass seed in the first week of September just before I go away on holiday for 2 weeks. I can finish the inside pretty much at my leisure over the winter or in the evenings once we start to lose daylight. I will probably also do the driveway before the inside.![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/7PYRwsJM.jpg[/img]</a> <a href="https://thumbsnap.com/eYBvHwSo" Target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[img]https://thumbsnap.com/sc/eYBvHwSo.jpg[/img]</a> <a href="https://thumbsnap.com/RYNEtvev" Target="_blank" rel="nofollow">[img]https://thumbsnap.com/sc/RYNEtvev.jpg)
I haven't updated my spreadsheet in a little while but I think about £25k all in which isn't too bad, for the size and the quality of the finish. The only thing left to do inside that actually costs any money is tiling the floor, I am allowing about £1k for that.
The cladding is Marley Cedral in slate grey.
The cladding is Marley Cedral in slate grey.
OK, now that the scaffolding is down the next job is sieving all of the soil to fill the beds and provide at least 200mm of good soil for the lawn.
The soil itself is actually very good, no clay, free draining and not a lot of stones, but it has loads of building rubble in it. It's all been dug over so many times it's very well mixed, but compacted in parts.
We spent all of last weekend and 3 days over this weekend feeding the soil through the rotary sieve, it works well but it's a pretty laborious process. It's only designed for having shovel loads put through it and if I was doing it like that I'd still be going next christmas! The improvised chute works fairly well, but it does need someone with a hoe poking it as the soil does consistently block the chute.
The most difficult part of the whole exercise is working in a confined space, I got to a point on saturday where the digger was sitting on top of a massive pile of soil and I had completely run out of room to work. Once "good" soil has been put down I don't want to drive over it with the digger again as it just compacts it too much. Nethertheless I think we're 90% of the way through it, I just need to scrape back a little more in the final corner, sift that level off the remaining good soil. Once the skip is out of the way I cane then move the digger onto the drive and do the final leveling. The idea is to leave it for about a month to settle and then seed it when I am back from holiday on the 10th September.
We have filled an 8 yard skip full of stone and brick and I think sifted about 60 tonnes, which is several hundred wheel barrows worth. Fortunately without counting too many chickens, I think we will have the perfect volume of soil left to bit the right levels once spread, which is either really good planning, or being really lucky!
As long as the weather is good next weekend (you cannot sieve it when it is wet) I should be done next weekend. Oh yeah, I ache a lot today!
The soil itself is actually very good, no clay, free draining and not a lot of stones, but it has loads of building rubble in it. It's all been dug over so many times it's very well mixed, but compacted in parts.
We spent all of last weekend and 3 days over this weekend feeding the soil through the rotary sieve, it works well but it's a pretty laborious process. It's only designed for having shovel loads put through it and if I was doing it like that I'd still be going next christmas! The improvised chute works fairly well, but it does need someone with a hoe poking it as the soil does consistently block the chute.
The most difficult part of the whole exercise is working in a confined space, I got to a point on saturday where the digger was sitting on top of a massive pile of soil and I had completely run out of room to work. Once "good" soil has been put down I don't want to drive over it with the digger again as it just compacts it too much. Nethertheless I think we're 90% of the way through it, I just need to scrape back a little more in the final corner, sift that level off the remaining good soil. Once the skip is out of the way I cane then move the digger onto the drive and do the final leveling. The idea is to leave it for about a month to settle and then seed it when I am back from holiday on the 10th September.
We have filled an 8 yard skip full of stone and brick and I think sifted about 60 tonnes, which is several hundred wheel barrows worth. Fortunately without counting too many chickens, I think we will have the perfect volume of soil left to bit the right levels once spread, which is either really good planning, or being really lucky!
As long as the weather is good next weekend (you cannot sieve it when it is wet) I should be done next weekend. Oh yeah, I ache a lot today!
Looking for some advice here, I need to lay around 300 square meters of type 1 over the driveway, there is already a fairly decent depth of type 1, albeit it's uneven and has too many large chunks and not enough lose infill. Before I used a conventional whacker plate which has ok, but too slow really and a bit tricky to control. That whacker plate which I had borrowed before is now broken so I'm going to have to hire something this time around. I figure a roller type compactor will be better, but the question is do I want a single roller, a double roller, or a ride on one? Obviously the ride on one will be more fun....
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