Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House
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Then these turned up…..Les is hung over and Alex has damaged his back (when a car pulled out in front of him when he was cycling home)....., so I guess shifting them is down to me....(Paula, conveniently has a subsequent engagement
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That is some very nice hand cut Blue Stone. Where was it laid previously? Do you know the history of it? Thick
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I do not know where it was laid previously. In the UK, we call this York stone or York flags.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkstone
I am buying it from a reclamation yard in Yorkshire.
I've bought it in 3 batches thus far, each with it's own character, so I am going to have to be quite careful when I lay it…
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So, we had to divert the down-pipe to get the last joist in. Reckon the building regs person will be happy with our solution
?I see nothing wrong with that. Looks perfect, in fact.
Oh, and the auto close windows sound brilliant. I wish we'd had that in our old house- Julie was perpetually leaving the windows in the garage apartment open.
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We call it Flag stone as well or Blue stone. Those are very nice. They seem
To Be in great shape. I don’t see any cleaving of the stones. Be careful indeed… with your fingers! I have some great tricks for moving them and laying them if you’re intersted. Depending on the base you’re setting them in. -
@Matty123 I'd love some tips for moving them, yesterday was a bastard…..I have just the one bruised thumb
We'll either screed bed them when we have a run or runs that consist of slabs of effectively the same thickness) or individually bed them when we have slabs of varying thickness.
The slabs that arrived yesterday are effectively all 24 inches wide, so we'll be able to lay them in courses pretty quickly.
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@Giles there’s a tool you can make with some
Rebate and he ay gauge wire and a two Man method that uses flat nylon straps. Let me draw up
Some rudimentary (very) directions and I’ll get back to you ASAP. -
I’m excited about the the building regs person.
So, we had to divert the down-pipe to get the last joist in. Reckon the building regs person will be happy with our solution [emoji4] ?
As long as it doesn’t leak they can go for a long walk off a short pier. Looks like a good temporary bodge to me.
That internal roof is giving me the horn though. I do love a nice bit of framework, not to mention the lintels and joists [emoji7]
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Everything going to plan at the moment, in fact slightly quicker than I had continged for…
Roof (bar the ply upstand) is ready for the insulation, Alwitra and lead work. That should start tomorrow...
And the services that need to be in place before we Celotex and screed the floor are in place…
@neph93 , you'll be disappointed, the build regs person is on holiday, so I took a vide of the stuff that she is interested in, hope it'll be enough for her….
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Everything going to plan at the moment, in fact slightly quicker than I had continged for…
That must be nice. I'm envious.
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I'm just waiting for the major fuck up. We had one issue that kept me awake at night last week. Some of the joists had been made the wrong length, which would have meant the lantern was going to be off centre and thus screwing up everything. Les fixed it the following day within a couple of hours. The Posijoists are amazing, but when you hit a snafu, good old-fashioned timber joists are a lot easier to re-jig…
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Hey Giles. How’s the stone work going? I wish I could Come put it down with you guys. I miss the work and it’s be great evo on my IH gear
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Stonework not started yet. Scaffolding is where we need to lay the stone. I reckon that taking the scaffolding down is 2-3 weeks away - Need it up there until the coping stones are laid, which can't happen until the roof is completed…I'd love to have you do it....would free Les up to do more stuff inside.
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Had a conversation last night about progress on the house and I found out that the plumbing fixtures that were "ready to install" two weeks ago were in a warehouse in North Carolina and couldn't be shipped until today because of post hurricane flooding. Who needs faucets, after all?
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That looks spectacular Giles.
Scaffolding is often the culprit. I can’t tell you how many times I was called to
A job to be asked why I hadn’t planted or laid my stone yet. I silently walked out of The job trailer over to the scaffolding. with pointer finger extended, I emoted this question “ how the fuck am I supposed to put my material in under this erected scaffolding.
