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Doors & windows

29/2/2020

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Taking a little respite from all the flood prevention work - spending some time building the doors and window frames for the extension I'm slowing building to our home.  

The exterior doors are very tough, and heavy - solid accoya with hardwood marine ply strips in rebates running the whole length and top and base of the lower panels.
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I've made the window frame for the upstairs pediment window and little qwerky to maximise the amount of window we get - the views around here are amazing.
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I'm still building the openers for the ground floor front window - but I have the glass already so I should complete it soon.

I'm being careful to work weekends or the odd day only on the extension - greenhouses are still the priority of course.  I'm not slacking off, honest.


Check out this view though......
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Storm Dennis - flooded workshop

17/2/2020

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The stream behind our garden overflowed and brought waves of mud through the Green Bug workshop overnight.  We abandoned the clean-up after a few hours after seeing it was coming again and diverted the stream away onto the drive, laid sandbags (left overs from previous building jobs - thankfully) and dug channels .
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However, the main pipe carrying the stream water blocked completely on the second day and nothing could clear it.  We tried rodding, digging out, I went in the water 3 times trying to pull out what I could find with my hands.  A kind farmer neighbour dug out part of the bank with his JCB so we have a new overground stream for now.  It's just running clear of the workshop door and back into the stream again. 
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Thank you wonderful neighbours.
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Building a "Tim" in Kent

13/2/2020

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The "Tim" greenhouse is 4m long by 2.5m wide with a porch which extends out by 1m.  The porch isn't quite as wide as the rest of the building which brings the ridge down just a little - adding a little extra interest to the front.
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I've built quite a few of these now - the first was for Tim who lives in Southampton.
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This feels like a great spot for the greenhouse, virtually filing this corner of the garden - the only downside is this deep concrete path laid right through the middle of it.  Rather than excavate all this and skip it I'll work around it.  The path is deep enough to work as a foundation where the wall meets it but I've got to make sure my wall levels and flooring eventually meet the same height (thankfully the path is level).
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Even after digging out the interior the ground was pretty loose.  You can see how messy it is outside the greenhouse.  So I fetched a load more material from the building merchants and opted for a full dry bed of sharp sand : cement to support the flagged flooring - there's no way that floor will ever move.
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Now back to the workshop to finish off building the greenhouse and order up the glass.  I'll back here in a couple of weeks or so.
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Any Colour You Like....

5/2/2020

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This is a close-up of my painting bench which started the year as bare wood. 

The greenhouses this year, as you might see, comprise of the following colours:-

Anthracite Grey
Breakfast Room Green
Jungle Green
Strong White
Green Smoke (very popular - a few of these
All White
Clunch
De Nimes
Bancha
French Grey
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Most customers choose from the Farrow and Ball colour range.
It's well worth choosing your colours outside as they always look different in the daylight - and different in other parts of the country, in a valley or hillside.  Farrow and Ball will send out small sample pots so you can really try out how the colour will look in your garden.
Below are 2019 greenhouses in their various colours.
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Building extension at home - Update

1/2/2020

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Since my last update in July I've been working every weekend on an extension to the house - to provide much needed extra facilities - we only have one toilet and a bath so there's always a queue.  We can't wait to have a shower again!
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My eldest son Tam bricklaying some of the internal walls.
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My other son, Rab, helping me brick up the doorway (which you can see in the picture above) now that we've got the roof on.

Eric, my father-in-law, came to slate the roof in and help me get the roof structure up.  All the family helping out. 

The only trades we've brought were for plumbing and electrics.
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My wife, Jo, painting up the outside now that the rendering is complete and the scaffolding down.  I rendered the whole thing in one long weekend.

There is still plenty to do - I need to complete the windows and doors before we can get a plasterer in.

I also need to get on with a lot of greenhouses......
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