Category: Building Gar Bothan diary

Week begining 24th April 2023. After last week’s progress we are going to carry on in the same vein and are going to tackle the south facing roof. We were going to be four on the job but one of the team had to attend to other matters so it’s just Molly, Pete and Alistair.… Continue reading Week Forty-seven

Week beginning 17th April 2023 It’s Monday again and the weeks are just flying by. We still have so much to do before Pete goes back to work at the beginning of June. Our first task of the week is to install one of the two remaining ducts along the south wall but before we… Continue reading Week Forty-six

Week beginning 10th April 2023. This week our son and grandchildren are coming to stay with my sister from Italy so we have a bit of work to do in preparation. We need to finish building the mezzanine walls so it is safe for the kids to go up there without us having to worry… Continue reading Week Forty-five

Today we are going to carry on where we left off yesterday so we are going to build two more mezzanine walls. Yesterday we cut most of the timbers for the wall that faces the living space so we just need to cut a few and it will be ready for assembly. We are adding… Continue reading Week Forty-four – Part Two

Week beginning 3rd April 2023. We are on our own again and it’s a lovely day. We are fitting the sill on the guest bedroom window before we fit the window reveals on both the bedroom windows. These are the last two windows on the house so once we’ve done them that’s that task completed.… Continue reading Week Forty-four

It’s Wednesday and today we are going to continue working on the window sills and reveals. We are making good progress on the guest bathroom window and so have started on our bathroom window. We need to move on to finishing the prep on the roof window supports because we have asked our friend Gary… Continue reading Week Forty-three – Part Two

Week beginning 27th March 2023. Where does all the time go? Another Monday morning and the sun is shining and the clocks have changed to `British Summer Time’ so if necessary we can work on with the extra hour of light. The first batch of tin for our roofs has arrived so if we get… Continue reading Week Forty-three.

It’s a right dreich day so it’s inside work for us, for now. Pete is finishing taping the last few trusses up at the apex and Molly is foaming betweene the ring beams. This task is a legacy from when we first put the timber frames and trusses up. The midfloors which make the mezzanine’s… Continue reading Week Forty-two – Part Two

Week beginning 20th March 2023. Since we didn’t post a ‘part two’ to our blog last week here’s a wee catch-up of what happened between then and now. On Thursday morning Kathleen helped Molly cut out some templates of the shower trays we had bought ages ago to help Des the plumber work out if… Continue reading Week Forty-two.

Week beginning 13th March 2023 After visiting Pete’s mum in anticipation of Mother’s Day and doing some shopping in Edinburgh we arrived back on a miserable wet Sunday evening. This morning we discouver that we have a bit of dripping coming in where we fitted the roof window. It isn’t a surprise because it won’t… Continue reading Week Forty-one