Wednesday, May 05, 2004
Saint Judith
Nearly finished moving the ugly black box from the pond. Built a small brickwork container next to the pond to house the bio filter and UV. Made the structure using breeze block and with the skills learnt from putting in 5 Velux windows a slate roof. However I'm really annoyed with Laguna, who made the filter box. The exit pipe from the filter is a different size to the inlet pipe and the supplied pipework doesn't fit ! This now means an extra trip to the shop to buy a small length of 3cm tubing to run the return flow back through the hole in the pond side wall to whence it came.
The photos show the before and during construction pictures. The outside of the breeze block, and maybe the rest of the pond wall is going to rendered with 'enduit'. A cream rough exterior covering. A first time for everything.
Had some friends and thier children over for tea. The kids don't go to school on Wednesday so we often have a family day. It's a nice mid-week break. They hadn't been to La Lohuas before so Caroline showed them the gites and grounds. It's really good to show people around because you forget what you have achieved in such a short space of time. We started in Jan 2003 with a couple of Chambre D'Hotes rooms, a gite in need of major refurbishment and an empty shell of a building. Within 4 months we had transformed the place to create three gites, with full summer bookings from a new web site. It was really tough, both of us 12 to 14+ hours every day. The whole experience warrants recording in a story. If anyone is interested, drop me a note !
