Rolux UK

One of the pleasures of this project has been to meet so many fabulous people and today has been no exception.  We have just had a visit from a highly professional team from Rolux UK.  They arrived promptly this morning , despite having driven from Cheshire.  The fitting of the front garage doors went like clockwork; the chaps worked hard and efficiently and we were bowled over when they even took their waste home with them. We cannot recommend this company too highly.  On their initial visit, the salesman impressed us with his understanding of what we wanted, and this has proved to be a very sound decision.  

Here you can just about tell that there are actually two doors - a double width roller (which is concealed extremely neatly in boxing on the inside of the garage) and a single personal door on the left hand side.  The doors panels are 79 mm double skinned, insulated aluminium, with heavy duty 90 mm guides.  All of the aluminium parts are pre-treated and chromatised before being powder coated.  The rolling door is opened by a Somfy 240 v motor with an inbuilt obstacle dectection panel for safety. We still have to finish off the framework around the opening (another little job for BDM, I suspect) but we are very happy to have all this extra secure storage space.

Full marks to Alutec

A quick update on the guttering is that following our concerns we had a visit last week from the sales manager and someone from technical support.  They built a sample panel which still was leaking so following a conference call this morning they are sending their expert gutter fitter to replace all the fittings and to ensure that it works properly.  We are still not quite sure what is causing the problems (they have sold many many metres of this stuff) but we are extremely grateful for their assistance in making sure that it will live up to expectations.  10 / 10 Alutec.

Progress all around

Bedrooms 2 & 3 are now plastered - thank you so much to Tony Buckingham, Justin and Jake who worked like Trojans.  A beautiful smooth finish - and this time I promise to listen to Tony and that the first coat of paint will be a mist coat (when doing the bathrooms I believed the salesman who persuaded me to buy a very expensive paint on the promise that a mist coat wouldn't be needed - but it has peeled in some areas).

Marc is levelling out around the front of the house, preparing the ground for a stone path immediately next to the house with a small border of plants next to the road.  A very stressful job as there are cables only 15 cm down.  The trenches you can see here are for the footings for a stone retaining wall on the road side of the path.

Terry and Ashley have been joined by Danny and are continuing with rendering - here we have the Caselle garage and David's workshop all scratched and finished.

Last but not least we have been preparing the garage for screeding at 07:00 tomorrow.  This involved scraping the garage floor to remove all concrete lumps, endless sweeping, two layers of a thick polythene damp proof membrane, sheets of super strength Kingspan Styrozone - insulation which can take the load of a car; this is rabbited at the edges so it all slots together beautifully.  Finally there will be one more layer of waterproof membrane on top before the screed is poured over.