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| Pictures from site: October 03 onwards |
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 The structure for the bridge link |
 Part of the BMiS weather station |
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 The arrival of our new temporary home |
 The landrovers with tow hitches in each corner and a winch ensured the mobile home eased onto a tight site |
 Clare from Talkback gathers more images |
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 The next day the blind covers were lifted overhead onto the north building |
 Large pieces of steel - just for blind covers |
 Door subframes in - lots of Expamet beads used everywhere |
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 Roy and John from Progressive crack on with the walls first... |
 ..the sand and cement render around the pond is applied to EML for extra strength.. |
 ... then Eddie, Jake and Emilio board out the ceilings |
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 Eddie uses his American stilts to shim the ceilings |
 The northeastern elevation |
 The northeastern elevation revealing the slot window |
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 The northwestern elevation |
 A hint of what is seen as you drive along the lane |
 Southeastern corner with the benefit of film lights within - a taste of things to come.. |
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 Martin (Director) with the Talkback crew observed by our children |
 The Hormann garage door with which I am delighted |
 A gable end with stainless steel balcony and louvres added today |
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 The front entrance starts to take shape |
 Ventilation louvres by the kitchen |
 The final 316 stainless steel finish will be applied to the flue later |
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 The Access garage Door chaps fitting the Hormann door |
 All done - a well deserved advert picturen |
 The Schluter Bekotec underfloor system |
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 The cleanest RMC mixer you ever did see delivering the first screed |
 Testing the Supaflow consistency |
 The pancake is measured where it stops |
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 The screed delivery pipe to the first room completed |
 Measuring the depth of screed required - see laser and the sprig tell-tale on the floor |
 Keith tamping the dressing room |
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 and the living area |
 Lake living room shot from outside the building |
 The master bath drying out - see the Schluter indentations in the floor |
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 The thin screed on its way to drying out nicely |
 A very busy cupboard. Electrical Distribution Board 2 (top) and Manifold 3 in harmony. |
 On the right a rubbed down stressed ply section in worse condition |
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 Despite being left in the open for 10 weeks the ply has not delaminated |
 I hope the insurers from Switzerland are looking in!!!!!! |
 And the veneer sticks |
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 Front rill showing provision. Light pods are in grey |
 The longer rear rill ready to be poured |
 DANGER - Perry with shovel working on the front rill |
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 Rear rill concreted and ready for bricks |
 Rear rill bricked except for last step and deck steel partly fitted |
 View from the pond door |
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 Each brick in the centre is holding in place cable which runs back to the house |
 The marvellour OSO hot water storage tank and pressure diaphragm |
 Our beautiful Chimflue chimney |
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 A hint of the stainless steel downpipe |
 Our shed, and it went up in a day |
 The blistering easily visible - very depressing |
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 More blistering - oh dear.. |
 Water ingression marks? Nonsense - because there was no water ingression |
 5 sandblasted panels - no sign of water ingression from the back! |
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 Judy working on the rill - it's a genuine self-build |
 Do you like the lines? |
 What do you think? |
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 The northern building gable end |
 The ceiling lightly planed - it looked awful |
 The stressed section sawaiting application |
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 Well, things are working, and here we compare stomachs |
 The battening worked very well as did the wonderful glue |
 Ken on glue, and the gaps to permit air to circulate |
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 And the next one goes up |
 Dennis and Ken sawing a shadow gap between the stressed and the straight panels |
 After applying the Teknos coating - the finished job! |
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 Everyone involved with this job is delighted |
 Meanwhile terrace steps were laid |
 The overall effect |
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 Steve and Billy - who have done a super job |
 and only worked 7 1/2 hours a day! |
 Steve also laid the cills |
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 The front cils |
 Steve and Billy also did all the internal wall and slate tiling |
 Part of the master bathroom.. |
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 ..a larger view.. |
 ..and the bathroom window |
 The living room entry - it will look very different shortly |
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 Entrance hall with Arne Jacobsen lights in position.. |
 ..around the corner to the internal pond area.. |
 ..and looking back towards the main entrance door |
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 Hallway to the study - concealed lighting in the ceiling |
 The infrequently seen guest room (template for bathoom mirror leaning against wall).. |
 ..more of the guest room.. |
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 ..and the guest bathroom |
 Lights from Mike Stoane lighting - these are gimballed |
 The linkway between the two buildings |
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 Looking down from the top landing to the internal pond |
 Top landing - lighting now reverts to in floor |
 Nice room |
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 Top floor again with lighting in floor |
 Our wonderful engineered maple floor is on the way from Germany |
 Almost ready to flick the switch.. |
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 ..almost finished here too.. |
 ..next to the intelligence system is the IP Homenet hub.. |
 ..and the Secom security hub |
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 The Keston boiler is performing very well |
 This is a bus coupler - which will have a switch fitted to it.. |
 .. and this is the switch - it can perform about 20 functions and is also a thermostat |
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