With temperatures dropping into the low single digits, and a hint of minus, the race to cover the outside of the house is now gone to extra time, with penalties on the cards. This week is possibly the last week we have to get the outside complete, and even then its a risk as if the plaster is too wet by nightfall then it may freeze and ruin it. Gotta get dry before sundown.
About 2/3rds of the house is covered with the base coat, and its set up to get finished with no delays. Inside all the dry lining is done, and rooms are ready for the skim coat. A few weeks should see the bulk of the internal plastering done as well, it's really beginning to neaten up and look like the finished article.
Outside some groundworks, laying a pipe run for ESB and another to allow cabling out to where gates are going to be for the future (electric gates/intercom and any services such a phone line). We're also shaping the front area for driveways to get stone in and bedded down.
This pipe is then covered in quarry dust to protect it, then ESB tape and then filled in. Only a rope in this section for now to allow the main cable to be pulled through when ready for connection.
Front door is finally ordered as is the garage door. More robberies in the area makes us all a little nervous, as well as disgusted that it comes to this sometimes. It can ruin a lot of hard work for people with little reward
About 2/3rds of the house is covered with the base coat, and its set up to get finished with no delays. Inside all the dry lining is done, and rooms are ready for the skim coat. A few weeks should see the bulk of the internal plastering done as well, it's really beginning to neaten up and look like the finished article.
Outside some groundworks, laying a pipe run for ESB and another to allow cabling out to where gates are going to be for the future (electric gates/intercom and any services such a phone line). We're also shaping the front area for driveways to get stone in and bedded down.
This pipe is then covered in quarry dust to protect it, then ESB tape and then filled in. Only a rope in this section for now to allow the main cable to be pulled through when ready for connection.
Front door is finally ordered as is the garage door. More robberies in the area makes us all a little nervous, as well as disgusted that it comes to this sometimes. It can ruin a lot of hard work for people with little reward
