house

Somebody thought my grandma's house (and her parents' house before her) worthwhile to shoot:

It has been decided! We are going to rebuild our attic, creating two large rooms and one shower room. The architect we talked to this afternoon figured to it would be best, and cheapest to simply create a completely new roof construction, including the wood, and tiles. This would allow us to place 15 cm thick insulation and yet keep a ventilation space between the insulation and the roof. It would also spare us the cost of having to move several supporting structures that are now obstructing any decent room-forming effort.

This weekend I've put up the insulation and the gyproc of the ceiling in the living room. To facilitate the job, I leased a special elevator, which can lift one plate of 3 by 1.2 meters without much effort. It also allows for near perfect placement so the plates can nearly touch each other. My father-in-law lend me a hand, and we had most of the work done by 6 pm.

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I managed to do at least some work around the house during the past few weeks. We've had the MetalStud delivered to construct the fake ceiling framework in the living room.

It seemed like a good idea to post a list of thing I've got to do. That way, certain people who provide gear and stuff can see what they need to order and bring along. So, in no particular order:

• Toilet downstairs
• Cover the walls with plaster
• Put in a new door
• Cover the plaster and toilet coverage with nice wall tiles
• Paint the ceiling once more
• Put in the light
• Finish with a nice paper on the walls
• Garden
• Prepare boxing for the concrete
• Fetch iron raster

Ah well, I'm about to have green grass and I already have a pretty girl, so the song must apply. Since Friday, June 16th, I've noticed small patches of grass coming through the topsoil. Three days later, the leaves have grown immensely, and more than a green shine is clearly visible. I am wondering though, if the lawn will be covered uniformly, because the rain of the previous week has put a few dents in my carefully levelled land. One can now see leftovers of footsteps, the handle of the rake going back and forth, etc.

Nine thousand five hundred kilo. Six cubic metres. Dirt. Three wheelbarrows. Two Shovels. Three men. Four hours. Thirty minute break. One pizza. One bottle of Coca-Cola. Goal: levelling the land.

The garden fence is up. Now we await payment from the neighbours, who promised to pay half of the costs we made to make sure we can no longer see each other.

If anybody needs some rocks, stones, or junk to burn, drop me a line. There's plenty of it still awaiting removal.

We have bought our house three years ago. The first task we set was removing all the electrical wiring and putting in a complete new set of wires, outlets, switches etc. Second, we needed to move the bathroom. Third, install a (new) (temporary) kitchen. Of course, various other tasks came along, such as gettting new windows, new floor tiles in the living room, quickstep in the bedrooms, and a whole lot of other stuff. However, the garden remained fairly untouched. Scheduled to be handled after two years, the birth of Elias and the heap outlined above delayed this task somewhat.