Category: Building Gar Bothan diary

Week beginning 24th October. We’ve had a fantastic few days because our wonderful grandchildren, Niven and Caitlin, came to visit with our son Eddie and we were joined by Zadjil and Carolyn on Saturday. It’s very important for us that Niven and Caitlin, and the rest of our family, enjoy our new place and want… Continue reading Week Twenty-one

Week beginning 17th October. Amazingly we are already starting the twentieth week of building our new home. We have come a long way since the sixth of June and we are very pleased with the progress. The weather has mostly been dry and we have been able to make great strides. But it has been… Continue reading Week Twenty

We’re up and it’s dry even though there was a deluge through the night. We need to take advantage when it’s dry to do the outside tasks so Pete is getting on with cutting off the ends of the trusses on the shed once he has finished measuring and marking where the cuts are to… Continue reading Week Nineteen – Part Two

Week beginning 10th October. We are up and at it late this morning, a few too many glasses of wine last night! We’ve just got ourselves together and are about to start work on the attic space in the shed but we have to stop because another timber and OSB delivery has arrived and we… Continue reading Week Nineteen

We’re up and about but not going outside because it’s pouring again – ‘the rain in Spain falls mainly in Argyll’. This, in many ways, has been one of our most challenging weeks. What with trying to work snd stay dry not being an easy combination. The issue of not getting wet is quite important… Continue reading Week Eighteen – Part Two

Week beginning 3rd October. We have just arrived back from a long weekend in Edinburgh and are pleased to see that everything is where we left it. We were a bit worried when we left on Thursday night because gale force winds were forecast for Saturday but it looks like they might have passed us… Continue reading Week Eighteen

Week beginning 26th September. On Sunday we were invited to lunch in Tarbert by our friend Monica, who was Pete’s dad’s partner for many years. On the way we went to see Andrew and Manda because we needed to check that our plan for cutting the trusses to ready them for the Veluxs was right.… Continue reading Week Seventeen

It rained heavily last night, as expected, so we have decided not to work on the house today. Instead we are having a bit of a slow start while waiting for the delivery of our insulation. We’re just pottering around when Pete gets a call from the driver checking he is on the right route.… Continue reading Week Sixteen – Part Two

Week beginning 19th September. We took Sunday as a day off and did a bit of gardening, then Molly washed her hair under the garden hose (our main source of water). Then we went for a walk up the hill behind our house. A slow start for this week, it’s already 9.15 and we are… Continue reading Week Sixteen

It’s Wednesday morning and after yesterday’s exciting and frantic activity we have decided a good tidy up is in order because there are lots of timber offcuts and general building mess around the build. We have lots of bags of garden and building waste so we are thinking of going to the amenity dump near… Continue reading Week Fifteen – Part Two