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82 Friday, Alain's team, headed by Denis, arrived immediately and
put all the sliding stable doors on and put in the timber (picture right). He
found that somebody had, at some time over the
Conaty's men are here putting up the undercover of the overhang to give it a proper finished look. I am off to do some painting.....got them all done by the evening. Sunday, all our horses home at last. I started painting the walls, his time we are using oil based primer which is much slower.
Day 85, 86 and 87 Sees one half, of half the roof the house, with the tiles finished. Its going to be slow. Conaty's were here for a day or so doing the gable ends of the shed, but still have to finish the roof at the house end on one side plus put the doors on. With some of this awful weather, it just blew straight through the passageway, luckily, still the stables were not drafty. We are having a slight problem with the stable doors coming off their rails with the stallions being stallions, but again, Alain said he can fix that, so we know that this will be sorted out, thank goodness. It just shows how important 'after sales' service is. I just wish our horses were not so boisterous. Thursday, a nice gentleman called to measure the place were the stairs are to go. Together we came to an agreement to widen them slightly to match the plans, though not as wide as the plans. We can just cut back the upstairs floor a little more (so easy with this building method) doing this means we can avail of the balcony area by the large window which overlooks the arena. As for our arena, this arera is still not ready to let Rock in to dig the drains, which will incorporate the pipes. And, as Friday finished with more to do, I think I will have to do it myself! I eventually got the fax from Francis of Power Tech, giving us the plan of how the geothermal pipes should be laid out to suit our arena area. (see below) I guess we just fit it, meeting at the long side of the arena and then just pipe it back to the house. What we plan to do is to dig these trenches down, good and deep. Fill them mostly with gravel so that the rain off the arena, the house and the barn, drain down to the pipes. It should naturally drain there, but at a higher level, make a drain off to cater for any excess water after that. Then just finish making the arena in the normal way with stone, membrane and finished surface. I hope it goes as easy as it sounds. Day 88 and 89 Tuesday and Wednesday 13th and 14th May. (Declan was not here on Monday) Conaty's worked on covering in under the overhang (picture up soon) It gives it a tidy finished look. More tiling was being done on the house so that the top of the two storey is nearly finished. Kieran (windows rep.) called to discuss the windows which I was so uncertain about, how the panes are divided etc. We are just having Pvc ones, that you see everywhere. If we were to have different windows it would just be another cost for us which we can do without for a few years yet. Same for the doors, I just hope the front door does not look bad. We also had a lot of 'discussing problems' on how the stairs go. I wanted a slightly wider balcony, but it finished off at the usual 3' due to the reinforcing in the upstairs floor that could not be cut back, it was incorrectly done (not to the plans for some reason). Day 90 Thursday15th May. The water drinkers and taps were set up and connected in the yard. They then had to attach the mains, and guess what? When one of the drainage holes were drilled in a stable, the water pipe was drilled too!!! If only these holes were put in with drain pipes through the wall before the pour, it would have saved all this trouble. We will just have to carry buckets of water to each horse for a bit longer. I think, what we will have to do, is to chisel out the wall from the outside, locate the damaged pipe and put in a joiner, then hope there is no more punctures down the line. Conaty's finished off two doors and hung them. A third is nearly done leaving the big double swinging door left. They also got the overhang sheeting finished. Nothing happened Friday as far as I was aware. |
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