General Upate 24-26 Aug
I've been a little delinquent with updates the last few days. Sally arrived yesterdays - great having her with me. Despite promising ourselves some holiday once she got here, other than a nice stroll around town today, we've still been busy, busy, busy. Good progress though...
The earth wire routing is complete - at least as far as I can take it this visit. It still need connecting up but that will be a job for the next visit, as I need to borrow a crimping tool from Tim. Sally brought over a 'bending spring' on the plane (luckily it wasn't considered a weapon). This allowed me to do some fairly fancy conduit bending to get around various existing pipes - made threading the cable through a real challenge though.
Good progress has been made on the garage roof with the soil removed from the trough and bagged, the primer down in the trough and on half the roof, and likewise with the first coat of sealant. I now need more primer and sealant - so off to Leroy Merlin again tomorrow.
And then there is the cellar and the woodworm. Progress here is slower - because it is a hot and difficult job. All of the 'husk' wood has been removed from the accessible areas and around half of the beams have now been wire brushed. I've got to complete the wire-brushing and then try and check out/ tackle the less accessible beams - i.e. those above the large fuel oil tank. Once all that is done, only then can I start applying the woodworm killer.
The earth wire routing is complete - at least as far as I can take it this visit. It still need connecting up but that will be a job for the next visit, as I need to borrow a crimping tool from Tim. Sally brought over a 'bending spring' on the plane (luckily it wasn't considered a weapon). This allowed me to do some fairly fancy conduit bending to get around various existing pipes - made threading the cable through a real challenge though.
Good progress has been made on the garage roof with the soil removed from the trough and bagged, the primer down in the trough and on half the roof, and likewise with the first coat of sealant. I now need more primer and sealant - so off to Leroy Merlin again tomorrow.
And then there is the cellar and the woodworm. Progress here is slower - because it is a hot and difficult job. All of the 'husk' wood has been removed from the accessible areas and around half of the beams have now been wire brushed. I've got to complete the wire-brushing and then try and check out/ tackle the less accessible beams - i.e. those above the large fuel oil tank. Once all that is done, only then can I start applying the woodworm killer.
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