Thursday, December 02, 2004
Rafters in progress
The charpentiers, carpenters, arrived today to put the roof rafters on the new kitchen and each of the lucarnes. By the end of the day they had finished one window and the kitchen, so I expect them to finish tomorrow. We also had a chap come to measure up for two staircases. When he measured he just measured up from a blue line that runs horizontally around the inside of the building. Caroline idly reminded him to take into account of the floor thickness (screed, tiles etc.) and he (like everyone else except us) knew that the blue line (drawn on day 1 by the macons) was exactly 1m above the finished floor height. It's the datum everybody works to.
I've been shopping. I've ordered 110 m2 of OSB3 (chipboard) for the flooring upstairs. It's going over the old oak planks to level everything up and cover some of the damage etc. Booked in the sandblasting machine for next Tuesday. We are going to leave alot of the old oak beams exposed and some of the stonework, so it needs a good clean. Bought mountains of metal studwork ready for the ceilings and stud walls upstairs when the floor is laid. I've used it before and think it's much much better than timber (cheaper, straight, no twists, consistent, no woodworm, ... ). Caroline has been out getting best price quotes for plasterboard, etc. When you are ordering large quantities of stuff (e.g. 300 sheets of plasterboard), a saving of just 1€ makes a difference. The shopping aspect seems to take more time and effort than the actual work, especially when it's in a foreign language and it's first time you've every bought the item, so there is alot to learn about.
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Rafters in progress
