Baker family blog
Yeah – we can now see and work when the sun goes down.
Two sets of lights – main panel lighting and spot down lighting. The spots are about half the brightness of the panels, but the camera has made the exposure to mid-grey and I didn’t compensate for it! The spot lights are dimmable to make it cosy.
The other circle in the ceiling is our recessed Kef Ci200 speakers – nice 🙂 There are a pair of them!
Another tree down. Greg is about 10m atop a beech tree.
Loads of 2×1″ = framework!
Retaining walls for terracing the garden. These are at our “fire-pit” area – yet to be completed!
The new rainwater pipe will go down to the soak-away.
The first bit of landscaping. Bamboo planted and grass growing although a bit patchy.
Underfloor heating pipes and DPM taped to blockwork ready for screed.
Screed was delayed due to a cement silo fault, but after waiting a few months due to Covid-19 another week didn’t make much difference.
This is a cement based screed delivered from a volumetric mixing lorry and pumped onto the floor. The leveling tripods are set level from my required 13mm down from the bi-fold door threshold; enough space for tile (9mm) and adhesive (3mm) and a spare 1mm for playing with!
The cement screed is more expensive but needs virtually no preparation for tiling. There is a little bit of foam that ends up at one end as the screed is leveled abd that can be scraped of with a paint scraper.
The last picture shows how level the floor and bi-folds are. The flowed floor level exactly matches the bi-fold threshold.
Easy lintel to install as there was a window there previously. We are lowering the floor so I only had to slot in a wider linel beneath the existing one.
The wall to the left is the old larder which I can’t remove fully just yet as it supports the wall above for the airing cupboard.
A few pics of the brickwork at each end. Windows and bi-folds installed. The corner brickwork supports the end few rafters of the roof the rest of the roof is supported by the metalwork and house wall.
