CULVERCROFT DIARY

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

August 2024 – electricity, roof, windows, bridge and upstairs flooring.

August 2024 – electricity, roof, windows, bridge and upstairs flooring.

Good progress (by our standards at least). We got the electricity turned on, the roof finished, the windows in, the bridge in, vacuum system and insulation in upstairs.

Final touches to the roof and rooflight installation:

membrane finished
Rooflight one coming in…
…and fitted
Rooflight 2 on the way – see how lucky we were with the weather!
All the rooflights installed – thanks again to the outstanding help from Mark and South West Crane Hire

Installing upstairs windows:

View from hall
View from kitchen
View from kitchen 2
View from lounge (note dolly wall now strapped down)
Timber frame plyed out
The glazing robot descends
Skybot
Superstar Mark in action
All windows and doors now inside in the dry and ready to install. Kitchen window installed thanks to Mark going above and beyond again!
Kitchen window from Tracy’s terrace
Bedroom 3 (fire escape) window
Bedroom 2 (fire escape) window in
Our bedroom windows in
Beds 1 and 2 windows and BIG Ralph
Vapour barrier on the inside and breather membrane outside of the studwork for the front windows
Front windows in
all taped up
full frontal
with a bit if roof showing

The bridge went in:

Side rails with the wall mounting frame on the ground
Minute joist hangers
Repositioned frame leg courtesy of another handy neighbour – welder Andy
Bridge frame in place – courtesy of TJ!
Craning in the main beams
Main beams in place – bolted to the frame bolted to the wall and the 4 tons of concrete pad beside the bungalow
Concrete pad in the distance – next to the old water pipe that came from the spring
Frame and main beam connection
Joists in
Temporary scaffold board deck done and dog proof side panels
sides done (view to front door)
to the bungalow
Before….
…and after

‘Central vacuum system’ pipework – courtesy of Beam and their super helpful Eoghan Moore….

Upstairs pipework 1…
…and 2 (short run for the kitchen skirting board inlet)

Underfloor heating prep:

Insulation going in

And the new electricity supply went live:

New pole and transformer with split phase supply
Ready for Octopus to install their meter
Octopussed

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September 2024 - Upstairs floor, wrong X, front doors.

Sat Aug 31 , 2024
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