Renovation Blog

1 August - Garden projects

Our visitors have been helping a lot clearing outside, along with various other guests, and I have built a set of five compost heaps out of a lot of scrap wood I had, which has been ripped down into wavy planks.

8 August - Time to knock through
I have built the padstones (courses of engineering bricks) ready to install our RSJs so we can enlarge the kitchen.

13 August - RSJ in - wall still standing!

With the help of the WWOOFers and a mate I have installed the RSJ. The wall is propped up safely and the Building Control Inspector has passed it as good. Crack open the champagne (or in this case sherry...).

26 August - Ketchup

Our WWOOFers have left - they have been a great help and very nice to have around. It's been a great experience for us (and I hope for them too) and we now need to find some more for the future. I have (for the first time ever) got so many tomatoes that I have made some ketchup.

31 August - Wood preparation
I have over 0.5 cubic metres of Douglas Fir, plus some oak for cills, all rough cut and unsized, which needs to be converted into six windows. I have spent the entire weekend cutting, planing and thicknessing it to get down to the components I need to make the windows. Now it's just a case of actually building them...