Oak frame is a jigsaw
The guys from Welsh Oak Frame spent the morning covering the brickwork below the damp with polythene to protect it from staining by the tannin in the wood, they then fixed the sole plate on the damp proof coarse to stand the Oak frame on.
After a decent sunny morning the rain has returned but the WOF guys are working in it as they have to get ready for the crane in the morning. Each piece of oak has a letter and number allowing the framers to know which part of the frame each piece belongs to so they are spending the afternoon identifying the Oak they need to get started.
Away from the frame I have been looking in to which rainwater harvesting system I am going to use, I spoke to WPL who market a home package which comes in at just over 3k for a 6500 Lt tank which seems a bit expensive but as I have only just started looking I have no idea really. I would be interested to hear anyone elses recommendations or experiences with harvesting systems.
Oak Frame is here!!
This morning I was up and about early despite a bit of a family get together yesterday as we were having a forklift delivered to the site to unload the Oak frame. As we had been let down on a couple of occasions on the frame delivery I was relieved to get a call from the driver that he was looking for the site.
At last the frame was here, least half of it anyway, once they have unloaded the lorry will be going back to Wales and will be back on Wednesday with the next load.
So the rest of today and tomorrow Welsh Oak Frame guy will be sorting the frame out and laying the sole plate down in readiness for the build to start on Wednesday when we will have a crane on site to lift the Oak in to place.
Oak Frame Delayed
Welsh Oak have been delayed by the weather on another site and have had to pospone the delivery and erection of our frame.
It is really dissapointing as this is the second delay and we will now be 5 weeks behind schedule assuming they do turn up next monday.
With the cacellation of the frame delivery we did not have to rush to get the scaffolding up and finished over the weekend so that is being completed over the next couple of days.
In the meantime I am getting a rep from keymer roof tiles in this afternoon as I really need to make a decision on the tiles and get them ordered.
Bricklayers done
The Bricklayers got finished on Thursday so with nothing happening on site on since Friday I took the opportunity to spend some time at home with the family and had a decent Easter break.
So yesterday it was back to it and I spent the morning with the Bob the joiner who I hope is going to manufacture our window frames to which we will fit the Bronze casements. I needed to be clear on a couple if issues before we agreed terms. The main point being Vale show quite a heavy mullion in their drawings and we felt it was a bit to heavy for our house so I wanted to use a thinner frame and mullion so Bob is going to make up some samples early next week for approval.
I have also arranged scaffolding for erection by the weekend I am as I am still expecting Welsh Oak on site on Monday.
Really getting buzzed for Monday just hope I have everything in place.
