Category: Building Gar Bothan diary

Week beginning 22 April 2024. Our intention this week is to make progress on fitting the door surrounds and, if that goes well, make a start on the skirting boards. To start with we are clamping the top piece of the master bedroom door surround to check that it is good and to hold it… Continue reading Week Ninety-nine

Week beginning 15 April 2024. We have been away for the last two weeks on a European rail trip adventure with our grandchildren, hence no blogposts. We had a great time and all the trains were on time, pretty much. We took eleven train journeys to get to Rome and back, with stop-overs in Paris… Continue reading Week Ninety-eight

Week beginning 25 March 2024. We’ve decided to try and take it a bit easier today. Our first task is to move the cladding from the back of the mega-shed to the back of the house. Luckily we don’t have much cladding left so it isn’t too hard and doesn’t take us long. We still… Continue reading Week Ninety-five

Week beginning 18th March 2024. We have decided to take it a bit easier today but we will still have to do some work. A task that we have been waiting to do but couldn’t until our most recent order arrived is the vent pipe for the waste water drains. The pipe arrived last week… Continue reading Week Ninety-four

Week beginning 11th March 2024. It’s almost half way through March already and the days are stretching, giving us a bit more time to work if we need it. It’s a nice day so we are aiming to fit the reveals around the main door and the mega-shed door. We need to do a bit… Continue reading Week Ninety-three

Week beginning 4th March 2024. It’s a beautiful sunny, and not too cold, Monday morning. It’s perfect for working outside. Craig has arrived to continue with the paving slabs and we are going to see if we can finish the south elevation of the mega-shed. We don’t have too much to do but we are… Continue reading Week Ninety-two

Week beginning 26th February 2024. It is a cold but beautiful winter’s day in Argyll and Craig has arrived to get on with our paving. He is doing a first class job and once it is finished it will give us a significant clean area around the house. We are erecting the scaffolding at the… Continue reading Week Ninety-one

Week beginning 19th February 2024. We are up bright and early to drive to Scottish Wood, near Dunfermline, to collect our special order of kiln dried, dressed larch. This is the timber we are going to use for finishing the tops of the ballustrades and return stair wall. We’ve had a good run down and… Continue reading Week Ninety

Week beginning 12th February 2024. Another week begins and we are just sorting ourselves out for another day’s building when the electricians arrive to sort out the mains cable from the house to the mega-shed. The task is much easier than we had anticipated so it hasn’t taken long and Pete can fill the holes… Continue reading Week Eighty-nine

Week beginning 5th February 2024. It’s a shockingly wet start to the week. Pete’s sister tells us there hasn’t been much rain in Tuscany this winter and they are hoping for some soon, while here we have had far more than our share. The river is as high as we have seen it since moving… Continue reading Week Eighty-eight