Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Placo, whacko and sticko.
It's been a few good days in the office this week. My office being the two gites across the courtyard.
Still putting up plasterboard, but we are getting a bit faster now. Most of the walls are new ones and so are straight and true which makes it much easier. I think we are going to run out of green placo - moisture resistant board - for the bathrooms. The shortage is because it's twice as heavy and twice the price of normal placo so I was very conservative in my estimates. Hopefully I should know when I finish the last en-suite next week.
By Tuesday afternoon, Ian and I found ourselves gazing out of our renovation cell looking at the sunny weather outside. It looked absolutely glorious. After lunch we decided that we needed some fresh air. Pick-axes and sledge hammers at the ready we attacked with gusto the old concrete ramp that lead up to the original barn entrance in the middle of the two gites. As part of the hard landscaping plan we wanted a large flower bed between the patios of each gite to give each a little privacy. Flowers don't grow in concrete, so whack, bash and break to smash up the ramp. It's very deceiving quite how much concrete is in a ramp. A tiring, but satisfying job done. Tick.
Wednesday followed a similar pattern, placo upstairs, sun shining outside. After lunch we needed another task we could complete and tick off the list. The placo just seems to go on and on at the moment. A little more hard landscaping allowed us to fit the patio door to the side of one of the gites. The two front doors are still on order. There was quite a bit of fiddling and angle grinding to get the concrete door sill level for the door. It's the first door we've fitted so we had to offer the door up 5 times before the final fix. It got heavier and heavier everytime we moved it. At last, 3 tubes of silicon around the frame to stick it in with a number of angle bracked screwed into the granite for belt and braces fixing. Stuck.
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Placo, whacko and sticko.
