Following on from yesterday's post:
After we had finished the base of the house we had some scaffolding erected and we were then ready for the delivery of the timber frame of our new house. James and I had designed the shape and layout of the building and a local company made it up in flat panels which were about 2 1/2 metres square. These arrived on a truck and James with a couple of other carpenter friends fixed them all into postion.
Living next to a boat yard was a great advantage on the day that we needed to lift the steel beam onto the ridge of the house - John just trundled down the yard with his crane for half an hour and it was in position, very efficient!
I couldn't believe how quickly it all came together, it took 4 days to get from ground level to a whole house. I naively thought "we'll be moving in within a couple of months", that was nearly 2 years ago but the amount of work yet to be done was astounding!
We had already built the garage/workshop the previous year which had been a really good plan because not only did it gave us somewhere secure to store things and somewhere water-tight to work from, but it had also been a sort of prototype of the 'real thing'. It can be seen on the left of this photo.
No comments:
Post a Comment