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Things are in place | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. It’s been a while, but. Something’s happening, well almost! Things are in place. At last, we have a date to start work on site: the groundworkers are scheduled to start in the week commencing 15 August, with their work taking about 6 weeks. This is the step that essentially unlocks the whole build programme, and should let us (or Sean, our project manager) put together the whole schedule. In the meantime, we have done a host of things contributing to the build:. We’ve bought ou...
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CONCRETE!!!!! | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. We now have a hole full of water. The floor slab’s down →. Yes, at last, after delay, storm, tempest and flood, the concrete went into the footings today. An immense sigh of relief, and, at last, the feeling that we are actually. Last week’s floods had subsided within a couple of days, but the ground round the excavations remains very muddy – stand still too long and you lose your boots. Followed shortly by the first concrete mixer, with 6m. So now, 20m. This entry was posted in Build.
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It’s been a while, but.. | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. Ordering the Timber Frame. Things are in place →. It’s been a while, but. My last post here was at the end of March, when we had placed our order with Potton for the timber frame. That triggered a series of steps, that have take until now to work through. I said then that we hoped to start groundworks in May – so much for hope! In the Potton Rev D drawings. That’s not the end, but I’ll continue in another post. This entry was posted in Build. Ordering the Timber Frame. The design loo...
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The floor slab’s down | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. This blog is moving… →. The floor slab’s down. The weather over the couple of weeks following my last post, when the concrete was poured, continued to be dire. While the east of England has had the driest winter for many years, Devon seems to have been deluged. Serious thoughts of building an ark, rather than a house! But then work seemed to pause for a while, as we had more rain. But yesterday, we went to the site and were stunned to see the floor slab in place…. You are commenting ...
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We now have a hole in the ground | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. We have actually started! We now have a hole full of water →. We now have a hole in the ground. At last, though, this week, we have seen some real progress. Today, Jerry and his colleagues are setting out the slab foundations,. Ready to dig the trenches for the foundations on Monday/Tuesday, ready for concrete Wednesday or so. We have to work out what to do with the heap of spoil…. This entry was posted in Build. We have actually started! We now have a hole full of water →. 1) its Ma...
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Inching forward | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. Something’s happening, well almost! We have actually started! We’ve just received the draft report from the geotech engineers, and, happily, the news is good. They had dug 4 “trial pits” on the site – holes about 2m x 1m x 2m deep – looking at the nature of the soil, trying to find bedrock, and taking samples for testing (for compressibility etc) and analysis for contamination. This entry was posted in Build. Something’s happening, well almost! We have actually started! You are comme...
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Geoff Cusick's Blog | Page 2
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. Newer posts →. Something’s happening, well almost! In my last post, I wrote that the groundworkers were due to start work on 15 August. All was going well until the Tuesday before they were due to start, when Sean the project manager called and told us that NHBC, the structural warranty insurer and. And take up to 8 weeks (ouch again! Required. This being building, Brian had another job that overran, so rather than starting on 15 August, he actually started yesterday. 8211; 22 August.
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This blog is moving… | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. The floor slab’s down. This blog is moving…. I’ve just re-built our website, and moved the blog from being hosted here (at wordpress.com) to the same server that hosts the website. Future posts will all be on the new blog, accessed via the website at. Http:/ www.cusick.org.uk. This entry was posted in Build. The floor slab’s down. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Things are in place.
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We have actually started! | Geoff Cusick's Blog
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Geoff Cusick's Blog. We now have a hole in the ground →. We have actually started! At last, after weeks of delay, we have finally started the groundworks. On Monday, the excavator and driver arrived to start on the foundations. All being well, this shold have the retaining structures and floor slab in place by Christmas. More next week, when we should have fixed the actual location of the house on the site. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. We now have a hole in the ground →. Enter your comment here.