July 10,
2010
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| The Loo |
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| Doors of the loo and storage room |
Somehow
Jerry and I have been working really hard but we haven’t been getting anything
finished. We have the loo and the
storage room in the garage almost finished.
I have two strips of wallpaper to hang and Jerry the baseboards to tack
up in the storage room. The ceiling also
has to be hung. Both rooms are
functional at the moment so hurrah for that!!!
The loo is complete except for a little grout. Seems like we have been working on those two
little rooms since the beginning of time.
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| The 3rd chamber & bath |
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| Pouring level floor in chamber bath |
Jerry is
working like a madman on the chamber on the 2nd level. He has repaired the holes in the walls and
the floor. A door has been installed
where there was a door (but not during our ownership of the house). Insulation has been installed above the new
door and along the top of the existing
wall to keep the wind from whistling down the staircase during the winter He has torn up the floor where the bath will
be due to the fact the floor sagged really bad at some point in time. To install the shower the floor had to be
level. He is pouring concrete to get the
floor ready for the shower enclosure, the toilet and the new floor. We aren’t going to use the old tile since to
clean them would take months. They are
very fragile and break very, very easy.
It is a shame…….
I have
cleaned the walls in the chamber twice, steamed cleaned the ceiling beams and
pulled nails out of everywhere I could reach….still have about 1,000 more nails
to pull! (Keep in mind this is the
chamber where animals were kept at some point in time.) I started painting the Sous Couch on the
walls….I had forgotten how much I hate that stuff….YUK!
The floor
has been swept, mopped, steamed, mopped again and swept again…….it needs all of
the above again and again before I can put any kind of sealer on them. Hopefully the room will be ready for company
(with the exception of the floor) by the end of August. I think we are being totally unreasonable but
hope springs eternal!
We are
having a company come and TRY to get a nice finish on
the dining room floor. They say they
will TRY
on several of the worse tiles and if the result is to our
liking they will tell us how much it will cost us for them to do a tile by tile
restoration. I think it will be too expensive. I have ordered cleaner and brillwax for a
last ditch effort on my part. If I can
get a nice shine and remove the rough spots with the wax Jerry and I will be
happy to skate along …..LOL
July 11,
2013
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| drilling holes |
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| debris falling from barn to garage |
Work on the
Floor of what will be the terrace started today. It was as dirty and dusty and they filled
almost as many truck loads with rubble as David’s team did when they were
tearing up the downstairs! There are big
holes drilled about every two or three feet.
These are for the iron rods that will be put into the walls then tied
into the iron mesh that the concrete will be poured into. An opening was cut in the floor where the
stairs from the garage to the terrace will be built. It is dirty, dusty work!! They also installed the support jacks in the
garage that will hold everything up until everything is poured and set.
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| support beams |
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| More support beams |
July 12,
2013
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| where the stairs will be |
Work
continues on the terrace. The workers
have formed up the part they are pouring today and have put the iron rods and
mesh in place. Now the concrete is being
mixed and distributed over the floor that has been prepared. The concrete is mixed in a machine on the
street level then it is pumped up to the terrace level thru a long flexible
pipe into a container. The concrete is
released from the container into a pile and the workers spread it where and how
thick they need it. It is a pretty
clever way to move the concrete. Can’t
wait to see when this part is poured!
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| mixing concrete |
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| Concrete container |
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| getting the floor ready |
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| spreading the concrete |
July 14
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| the new floor |
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| and more new floor |
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| and still more new floor |
The floor in
the barn is poured and curing. It looks
totally different (thank goodness). I
have to say it is nice to step out onto that floor and feel it strong under
your feet. Every time I walked out there
I stepped “lightly” knowing for sure I was going to go thru the floor at any
time and land flat out on the Garage floor. We now wait three weeks for the floor to cure completely. After that the workers will
be back to take the braces out of the garage and put a waterproof sealer on the
floor. Think we need to start getting
devis for the tiling. I really want to
have it tiled before we leave for Georgia.
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| Cabaret |
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| OH LA LA |
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| Blue Grass Band |
In between
all the work, Jerry and I have enjoyed a night at Moliere in Pezenas, a dinner
and music in the square in Neffies, a
cabaret show in Tourbes, a country and
western festival in Herepian, The Sunday
Brocante sale in Marseillan Plage, the 1st Brasucade of the season in Alignan and
of course the Bastille Day festival in Alignan.
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| Le Mayor's sausage at Brasucade |
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| the Poulan at Brasucade |
WHEW! Can’t wait to see what this week will be like!!
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| Happy Bastille Day!! |
