Category: Building Gar Bothan diary

It’s dry so we are going to get on with the soffits and fascias on the mega shed. Having a look at the truss ends we realise that we will need to attach some battens to the attic trusses to fix the soffits. This means six of the trusses on the east and west elevations… Continue reading Week Forty – Part Two

Week beginning 6th March 2023. We had a nice weekend, especially on Sunday when we went to Ardferrn for a day of yoga, massage, good food and good company organised by Keri. Interestingly, Pete felt much less tired and more energised after that and is raring to go this week. The week is starting with… Continue reading Week Forty

Having Ross here is going to be a great help and we should easily get everything ready for tomorrow when Andrew comes to start the fascias. Although cold it’s another beautiful morning. To start the day Molly is going to finish painting the battens on the west gable and Ross and Pete are going to… Continue reading Week Thirty-nine – Part Two

Week beginning 27th February 2023 It’s Monday morning and with the shed battens painted we are going to start fitting the insect mesh over them. If we can do this properly we won’t ever have to deal with wasp nests on our buildings. We have fitted the mesh on the north and south elevations of… Continue reading Week Thirty-nine

We are expecting Molly’s sister, Ishbel, this morning. She is very keen to help and we love having her around. Before she gets here Pete is going to measure and cut the studs for above and below the windows and doors. We have run our of the 300mm structural screws and have had to order… Continue reading Week Thirty-eight -Part Two

Week beginning 20th February 2023. We went to Edinburgh by bus on Friday to collect our car and to see our friend Helena whom we hadn’t seen for ages who was visiting Edinburgh with Art Terry and to show her film Self Isolation Songbook. We really enjoyed the gig at Summerhall and it was a… Continue reading Week Thirty-eight

Pride comes before a fall! We are up this morning ready to finish the first stage of batoning the building and things are going well, it doesn’t take us long to get the west gable done and now we are going to do the east. We are just discussing how well it’s going and feeling… Continue reading Week Thirty-seven – Xtra, xtra!

Week beginning 13th February 2023. By the end of last week we had finished the insulation on the house and had to prepare for our visitors. Our son Eddie was coming with our grandchildren Niven and Caitlin and we wanted our plot to be a little better organised. We moved some of the timber onto… Continue reading Week Thirty-seven

Week beginning 6th February 2023 It’s week thirty-six already and we have made great progress but we are a couple of months behind where we had hoped to be. Today Andrew is here to measure both roofs for their corrugated metal roofing, flashings and guttering. Before we can get started our delivery of insulation arrives… Continue reading Week Thirty-six

What a night of relentless rain it has been. Usually we like the sound of rain on the caravan roof, usually it has soothing qualities, but last night it became quite oppressive. It’s still raining this morning and we don’t yet have the extra insulation we have ordered. We are going to call the insulation… Continue reading Week Thirty-five – Part Two