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Oak frame is a jigsaw

New Builder — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:07:32 +0000

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.

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Oak Frame is here!!

New Builder — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:24:57 +0000

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.

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Oak Frame Delayed

New Builder — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:46:09 +0000

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.

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Concreted footings today

New Builder — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:58:15 +0000

3 day’s in and things have gone well.

We hit chalk at around 800 mm in the majority of the excavation except on the chimney side where we went down 1 meter and left it for the DS and NHBC inspection.

The District Surveyor was OK with everything but requested another .5 of a meter in the chimney end and then signed off for concreting. The NHBC Surveyor however required has to go a meter all round and agreed with the DS on the chimney end, as it was still early in the afternoon there was plenty of time to get the required work done.

So first thing this morning the first of 7 mixers arrived, they could not get them right up close so had to user a dumper to run a pour. Never the less pouring was completed by a liitle past 5 pm.

The bricklayers are coming out tomorrow to make sure the footing are OK and to firm up the price and we should be good to go getting up to DPC after the weekend.

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