Phase 1
Day 1
I cleared the site myself with a 13ton 360 digger. We Sent two loads of concrete to recycling and two loads of inert spoil.
We bored five 150mm diameter holes, 9m deep, two for soakaways, one for a preheat 'earth tube', two for the interseasonal store.
Days 2 – 4
I dug the basement hole and sent 35 loads of inert subsoil used to cap off a local landfill site. Philip and I also blinded the oversite.
Day 5
We placed the mesh reinforcement and starter bars for the basement slab.
Day 6
We finished the reinforcing steel, inserted thermocouple probes, and lay 25 cubic metres of concrete to basement floor.
Day 7
We loaded materials out for building the basement walls and put in a land drain around the edge of the slab leading to one of the bore hole soakaways.
Days 8-10
Building blockwork, building in cavity trays, weep holes and reinforcing rods building hollow blocks, fitting insulation and cavity detail to bottom of walls and inner leaf block work.
Day 11
Building blockwork, filled hollow blocks with concrete.
Day 12
Building internal blockwork, back fill arround basement to 1500 up ready for ring beam.
Days 13 & 14
Finish building internal blockwork, Fix steel and pour concrete ring beam.
Days 15 - 20
Building brickwork, put on floor and build in basement window lintels,damp trays and dpc.
Days 20 - 25
Building brickwork and blockwork, build in waste pipes and insulation (300mm fibreglass bats), first base lift scaffold up, steels on ready for floor, building detail projecting course.
Days 25 - 30
Building brickwork and internal blockwork, scaffolding up at first floor level, wait for floor and rain to stop eventually crane floor on, load out blocks and bricks, clean up ground floor rooms.
Days 30 - 35
Building brickwork and external blockwork to first floor, lost a rare day to rain but ordered everything for the roof, sample window arrived almost ready for roof scaffold.
Days 35 - 40
Building brickwork and external blockwork to first floor, lost an even rarer two days to snow and cold, finished blockwork and built the special wall plate detail. Scaffold for roof went up.
Days 40 - 45
Built roof, lifted in sand and plasterboard for first floor works, loft floor deck, and insulation. insulated over the wall plate area as detail, felt and battened roof, practiced dry verge detail, started to tile roof, ordered windows.
Days 45 - 50
Tiled roof, Ridges and hips, front gable- build fixed green oak false frames and basecoat lime render, fit some MHRV ducts, finished first floor and basement internal partitions.
Days 50 - 55
Render, solar panels up and connected, temporary connections to underground iterseasonal thermal store, ventilation ducts in loft, gutters up, scaffold down, fit vapour/air barrier to first floor ceilings, tack seilings.
Days 50 - 58
Tidy site, backfill round house and fit and cover wing insulation (100mm polestyrene), run pipes to "poor mans" bore hole scrape road, rainwater drains and recycling store, foul water drains test and backfill, water main and electric duct, basic landscrape.
Days 58 - 80
Tony takes a holiday, been overworking but he leaves with you a catalogue of his mistakes to mull over.
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