CULVERCROFT DIARY

Building Culvercroft II (click on pickies below for more info)

October 2024 – downstairs floor and starting studwork upstairs

October 2024 – downstairs floor and starting studwork upstairs

First we had to get the dpm in and seal around openings with bitumen as well as dpm. Then the vacuum pipework before the insulation…

Hallway damp proofing cut outs
Granny flat damp proofing cut outs and pipes
Granny flat dpm
Granny flat vacuum pipework
Lobby dpm and vacuum pipework
Plant room dpm, pipework and insulation

Then the insulation – and foil tape all the joints…

Hallway insulation / dpm / vacuum pipework
Boris inspects vacuum pipework
Hallway insulation taped
Workshop insulation taped
Plant room insulation taped
Hallway view from plant room
Office insulation taped

Then the edge foam, insulation and protective membrane before the underfloor heating pipework:

workshop pipework
Office pipework
Office pipework 2
Granny flat pipework
Lobby pipework 1
Lobby pipework 2
Hallway pipework 1
Hallway pipework 2

Then the reinforcement mesh

And finally, the door thresholds and the expansion joint between the two pours before the concrete work starts.

Day one pour:

Tom and the Duraform pump back again
Team EFR setting up levels
Concrete pipework ready
Getting ready for first load of concrete in the workshop
Office concrete going in
Workshop poured and levelled 1
Workshop poured and levelled 2
Workshop panning
Workshop finished
Office panning
Office polished and day one pour joint

Day 2 pour…

Granny flat concrete in, hallway and lobby next.

And then we started on the stud walls in our bedroom…

Inside Tracy’s wardrobes
view from bed to bathroom entrance (on right) and the back of Tracy’s wardrobes

And we installed the temporary heat source for the underfloor heating. Thanks to Adam Cornish at Earth-Inspired for all his advice and help!

Meanwhile, some other interesting pickies from this time last year (and before)…

17th October 2023

9th October 2023:

An old aerial photo

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November 2024 - mvhr, studwork, doors, electrics, plumbing...

Sat Nov 2 , 2024
MVHR. Every day’s a school day! We didn’t foresee that by warming up the floors (to dry the concrete) the moisture would condense so much on the rooflights, steel work (cold bridge until insulated) etc. So the focus shifted from studwork to mvhr… Studwork… And we got the doors in downstairs And we met Neil […]