We have finally added some floor to the first floor where it will be 2 bedroom and 1 bathroom. The suspentes for this room are also getting done. The big indoor window will hopefully be put ...
Nothing major as the whole france seems to be on holidays, and hard to get material etc. Just huge major clear in the main room, as the chaux is finished, Sorry sorry no photos. Also the suspentes ...
Sorry sorry sorry too much to do and forgot to update the blog. So we finished with the internal chaux (still the outside to be done). We are now doing some roof insulation and started by adding ...
Nothing much new going on, we are still re pointing! This weekend we had to cut the grass as it was starting to be very very very high So results : And the Chaux!
We are still repointing the house....as inside walls, we havent even started the outside.... We have managed to finish this wall! Woohoo just another 300m2 to do! We are almost half way this wall! ...
This week we had help from Alex "little" brother, Pierre. So they started by cleaning the area then by rebuilding the top of the 2 outside back windows. Looks very nice!!! Just missing to repoint ...
We are still repoint the house...and we will be doing this for a long while..... It takes around one hour to do 1m2. OK first, will show the new windows!! It was added sometime last week. The ...
This past weekend we had a little help of Alex parents. We did repoint some walls, which does takes forever, and Alex and Mr Hanin almost finished the plasterboard. 1)Plasterboard For some reason ...
This weekend we finished the partition did a bit of joint. But first, a little photo of the front of the house without the big garage gate. Soon it will be a glass door. the window frame were done ...
Not much going on in Jumilhac Land! Extremelly bad weather, alot of mud so work sort of was very slow.... So this weekend we started doing the rails and adding plasterboard to the wall that had to ...
The roof is finally finished! Apart from the Roof few things were done this past weekend, including alot of cleaning as it was a real mess inside... 1)One part of the wall had to be put done, ...
Not much of the Roof was done this past week as the weather was so bad... 2 Velux windows were added, one missing... The roof is supposed to be finished by the end of this week.... The bedroom ...
The front panel of the roof is finished. They have started the back panel but due to extreme bad weather the work had to stop. At the moment it is a real mess....mud, water, old wood....it is just ...
The roof work started last monday, and looks great!!!!! We chose the tradional tiles from the reagion,really lovely!!! But of course it comes at a price! Few Photos more photos to come !!! but ...
This weekend few things here and there were done...we wanted to finish sandblasting but the machine was out of order .... so hopefully we will be able to finish next weekend if weather ...
We have just spent the last 5 days sandblasting the outside of the house....before the roof is changed. Before The Process We started first by the front of the house During the evenings when ...
This weekend The front window surrounding was finished as well as the back concrete was taken down. There is still the 2 windows to be done and the concrete staircase to be taken down.... Few ...
Slow progress, but at least some progress this weekend. The window surrounding came down, however it had to be redone. ...rock by rock etc ..... Still not finished, and yes there is the 2 windows ...
First the plaster had to be removed. Very long and boring process. There is only a little bit missing, because it was impossible to reach. Now, little photo of the staircase with the metal frame+ ...
The Hearth is almost finished. It is missing one last layer. We found that it looked far too small like this. In the middle(where u can see the hole), we will add concrete and then a metal sheet. ...
Not much went on during the past few days ... Little video from the inside of what to be the living area... MVI_8802 Uploaded by lubertozzi Alex also cleaned few bricks to be used as the fireplace ...
Concrete was done last Wed. (16/01/2008). Looking good!!! Clean, finally no more earth! Few pics of the end result: All in all looking very very veryyyyyyy nice!!!!! Really happy with the ...
Little note to Say that CONCRETE is done weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! And Roof is going to be changed End of FEBRUARY (beg march)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All very very exciting!
The ceiling of the future kitchen/dinner came down within 3 hrs!! Thx to the extra labour weeeee! Unfortunatly the camera had no baterry so this time we are a little short of photos! But lets ...
Mr Picot has FINALLY finished his part! That is superbe as he is going on retirement on the 1st of January! The work is wonderful, we couldnt ask for a better job. Few pictures to show the result. ...
This past weekend Alex collected the new nice oak floor, for the master bedroom. Before putting the floor, Alex had to remove some concrete from where the sink used to be. Once it was done, the ...
Loads of progress during the past week. The pile of earth that was in front of the house is finally gone! ! ! Septic tank is also fully in place. The beams are also sealed! Now Mr Picote just need ...
As there was nothing to be done inside, as we are waiting for materials, and for the builders to finish X bits, Alex attacked the outside plaster. Very ugly and tick, you tend to wonder why da ...
This week the floor of the Loft was taken down. (and nope alex did not get hurt this time!). Waiting for the lambournes (lambourdes :p), and also for the flooring which is 3 weeks late! Normal in ...
Carpinter As Mr Picot only comes when it rains and leaves when as soon as it stops raining, the process is dragging! In France they dont seem to have any sort or organization, timing and ...
The weekend started well, we rented a truck, the sand blasting machine and a compressor and also bought 25 bags sand of 35kilos each. We started by the loft, just photos before and after This will ...
ok the walls are finished! Few photos of the result: All done! Well done Alex! ! ! This coming week: Mr Tallet will prob be fitting some of the new windows! Next weekend we will be pressure ...
Yes Mr Picot came once again, his team managed to finish to put in place all the legs of force, now another builder has to come to sel the big beams from the outside so that he can come again to ...
It is going up, slowly...problem is that it is far too cold, so the glue is taking ages to dry ...if it doesnt dry then the walls are not stable enough to put another row of siporex on top ... So ...
Alex also started the siporex partition. That is it for this week. The siporec glue was not drying and the wall started moving because of it. It is extremelly cold now, according to a picture that ...
This week Alex had to go to Jumilhac alone, the weather is bad, cold and windy. .. was just not possible to take the children there. . . Not much to say, just few photos: The Lambourne (or ...
We have now finally started to lay down the lambournes. First we have to support the floor with few more solives. Bang here bang there! Once the Solives were done, we started putting the ...
The weather is geting cold ... Autumn is here ! Soon Winter. Leaves are gone, sun is still around but the wind is cold. Starting to get very hard to be in the caravane with the children ... soon ...