View from across the road

The roof panels are all on, but there isn't much to see from the outside.

Work on final ceiling started

As the first panels for the pre-ceiling on the top floor go in, the scaffolding has gone up another floor.  This gave us the chance to get a look inside the top floor of the house from roof level.



Looking through the ceiling of bedroom

  The ceiling will be the flat roof and will be build the same way as the other floor/ceiling ... first drop a load of roughly cut pre-reenforced thin concrete slabs on to of beams held up by poles, then patch the gaps from underneath with planks and things, then use this as a base to form the remaining 30 cm of concrete and steel work.


Ceiling not quite water tight yet.



Ring anchor interface

On the top floor, some of the lintels have been poured and other (external wall) ones are on their way.

View inside the lintel holding block

Remaining lintel forming blocks, waiting to be deployed

It looks like the top floor should be completed this week, making things ready for the roof.  Let's see how th the builders get on.

Upstairs rooms becoming better defined

Despite the weather, tehre has been a lot of visible progress in the last few days.

Clair standing in front of the top of the staircase - bathroom in background

Main bathroom with large saw already in place

View throught the doorway into child's bedroom.  It looks like he's moved in already

The scaffolders have also installed the provisional staircase which saves clambering around on ladders and through trap doors.

View from the bedroom window

There was a break in the rain over the weekend and I took the chance to climb up onto the upper scaffolding gantry. 

View from what will be our bedroom window

The view across the Riedsbach looks really pretty (apart from te uilding site rubbish in the corner).  I wonder how it will look if/when the houses get built in the new development over there.

Meanwhile, back at the allotment, I established that (i) damp apple tree branches don't burn very well, and (ii) the annoying couchgrass I pulled up was one f the two sweetcorn seend which had actually germinated.  At least all the potatoes (Laura) have made it above ground level now.

Colour scheme selection

Yesterday we made some progress working on colours of exterior surfaces.

The exterior sliding panels to cover the windows will be woven with willow to match the surroundings.  After looking at steamed, peeled, smoked, natural (coarse) and natural (fine) and keeping all five samples out in the rain, sun, snow and wind for the best part of a year, we have chose the peeled willow (I think).  In the picture it is the second one down.

Woven willow sampler for sliding window covers (Schiebeläden).  Colours are, from top to bottom, steamed, peeled, smoked, natural (coarse) and natural (fine)

We also chose the colour of the window frames (there were many [50-ish] shades of grey to choose from - we went for zeltgrau) and the type of wood.  We also made an initial selection for the upper floor plastering but it is hard to describe (pale handbag) and not a final choice yet.

The curved concrete wall has been revealed - basically it is lovely, but there are some bits of cosmetic adjustment to made in a couple of area.

Shuttering for curved wall in exposed concrete

On the ground floor there is a curved wall with a small window in the middle.  The curve is a complex shape and the wall will be made of exposed concrete (Sichtbeton), so the shuttering has taken a long time to design and build.

The inner sufraces of the shuttering are formed from a bendy plastic sheeting, which is held up against the faceted wooden infrastructure.

It should be poured this week.

Inner surface of shutering exposed

Exterior of curved shuttering