10th July 2006
We are now in a position to start the actual building. After five years of planning, this has come as somewhat of a shock.
We received the full planning permission a couple of years ago and have since been bouncing plans off of the building controllers. They finally gave up and issued the Building Warrant in June.
The bloke with the big digger is very busy at the moment, but has given us a date of "around August".
We received the full planning permission a couple of years ago and have since been bouncing plans off of the building controllers. They finally gave up and issued the Building Warrant in June.
The bloke with the big digger is very busy at the moment, but has given us a date of "around August".
The council have very happily supplied us with our first load of tyres, although I'm not too sure what to do with the tractor and lorry ones. Perhaps we could set up a sideline in kids sandpits!
Updates will follow as soon as we have a hole to put the house in.
I think that this domain name may be online for quite a while!
Updates will follow as soon as we have a hole to put the house in.
I think that this domain name may be online for quite a while!
Update - 20th September 2006
Apologies for the slow update, I lost the website files and had to do a whole new one!
Well the hole is dug and we are in the process of filling it back in at the minute. I have the waterproof membranes on standby for a non-wet/non-windy day and have therefore been waiting quite a while!
Well the hole is dug and we are in the process of filling it back in at the minute. I have the waterproof membranes on standby for a non-wet/non-windy day and have therefore been waiting quite a while!
I have also been busy putting up a little shed to both store things in and provide some facilities and a warm dry shelter for visitors and volunteers. I say shed but it seems to have decided it wants to be more of a chalet!
So, to sum up, work has started properly and there is plenty of opportunity for interested parties to experience tyre pounding (hint, hint).
More updates to follow soon(er).
S.
More updates to follow soon(er).
S.
Update - 6th October 2006
Over the last couple of weeks we have levelled and blinded the site, layed the waterproof membrane, the insulation and today we finally started on the tyres!
Don't be fooled by the pictures, we spent most of our time bailing out the site, theres not a dry towel in the house.
Don't be fooled by the pictures, we spent most of our time bailing out the site, theres not a dry towel in the house.
Between six of us we have so far managed an astounding six tyres, only two thousand, nine hundred and ninety four to go!
A big thanks to all the extremely hardworking helpers (Alistair, Cyriaque, Jessica and Mary) who have so far been crazy enough to turn up.
A big thanks to all the extremely hardworking helpers (Alistair, Cyriaque, Jessica and Mary) who have so far been crazy enough to turn up.
31st June 2007
Apologies yet again for taking such a long time to update this. Unfortunately, the house had to take a few steps backwards due to damage to the waterproof membrane over the winter. As a result of this we decided to blind the whole back of the house. This posed the question of how you get sand to stick to a near vertical cliff face. The solution was to build up the whole back and reinforce it with wire to stop it slipping down before the wall goes in place.
We have now also blinded, waterproofed and insulated the whole ground floor, and, asides from a little filling in still to be done, can now get back to the tyre pounding.
Hopefully it'll stay dry-ish over the summer otherwise the house will revert back to it's winter disguise as a swimming pool!
We have now also blinded, waterproofed and insulated the whole ground floor, and, asides from a little filling in still to be done, can now get back to the tyre pounding.
Hopefully it'll stay dry-ish over the summer otherwise the house will revert back to it's winter disguise as a swimming pool!
Blinding the back
Current state of play
