The structure should be finished by the end of this week and then the roof going on Monday/Tuesday, followed by sheeting in to make us totally weather tight!
One of the difficulties we have been fighting is the mud you can see on the road in front of the build, although the site is now hardcored and we have finished all the excavations, the residual mud lingers on, a road sweeper came in today to see if it could shift it but this wasn't budgeted for. In fact i didn't even think of cleaning up costs when preparing my budget. Its worth thinking about if you are still n the planning stage. Although it was less than £100 these costs soon add up and having them built in from the start, prevent you using scarce resources on things you haven't planned for. That's my "learn from my mistakes" bit done for today!
The electrician will be on site tomorrow to connect up the site cabin for light and power, thus installing any good self builders most important tool........a kettle!
Subject to us having no weather delays, the builders will be back on site next Thursday to start knocking up some walls and then we will be weather proof. I'm going to keep a tally on each blog about the days in which the tent would have made no difference and the days in which the tent has allowed us to work when we wouldn't have been able too.
At the end we can all pat me on the back for making a good decision or laugh out load at the fact i blew a load of money on a tent..... only time will tell!
Neil
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