Construction site For a long time we were three persons on the construction site. Our son came to work a little bit with us. We divided the work "according to the muscle mass". Since I have the fewest, I was allowed to clean the property outside :-). On the first floor the men had to … Continue reading An active weekend
If one - like us - has acquired a large property in the forest, on which the previous owners have done nothing for decades, one has wood reserves for a whole human life after tidying up. I have to be careful that the word wood doesn't become an "unword" for me, because I can't see … Continue reading Wood, wood …. and still more wood
In this annual review I give a small summary of the different steps on our construction site in the main house. Unfortunately the year 2018 passed too fast for all the tasks on our list. We had to change our plans several times. Nevertheless we progressed a little bit. Concrete pillars: February 2018 The first … Continue reading Review 2018 – Construction site
A small summary of our works/plantings on the property of the last weeks and months. Entrance We have embellished the entrance by planting flowers in old containers (wood and zinc) found in the barn. Around the property As already informed in one of the last articles, we have placed wooden poles around the property to … Continue reading New plantings on our property Oct/Nov 2018
After a longer break we give some updates from our construction site. There is no big change, because we were both very busy professionally and could not come to the Landes several weekends .... but we are making progress. First floor We have been working on the first floor for some time to renew the … Continue reading Our construction site in October/November 2018
Parquet - Friday We ordered new wooden planks for the first floor from the sawmill close to our property. We took a day off to pick up the charge, because the mill is only open during the week. The 80 m2 did not fit into the car trailer at once, so we had to make … Continue reading The weekend from the 5th to 7th October
In the following article I give a short summary of this year's harvest in the Landes and the resulting cans: Apples - "good" Even if "poachers" have secretly cleared one of the old 3 apple trees on our property during our absence, there was still enough left of the two remaining trees. However, our apple … Continue reading Harvest 2018
It's been a while since the last update of our renovation, so here are some news from the house. During the weekends in August and September, Bob the Builder was busy finishing the wooden floorboard in the top floor. During the installation, we were obliged to replace two big beams because there were completely eaten … Continue reading The first layer of wooden floorboard is installed
When we acquired the property a year and a half ago, we also inherited also a couple of old sheds which carried a great risk of collapse. We wanted to demolish these sheds for a while, but we never had time to deal with them because the house renovation was our priority. Finally we planned … Continue reading The death of the old sheds
Part 1 - July 14/15, 2018 Before the insulation will be put in place by the mason company, we had one weekend to dig and close trenches for the future water pipes and electric pipes. So Bob the Builder took the shovel in the hand again and was diggin. Part 2 - 21./22. July 2018 The … Continue reading The concrete floor – in 3 parts
