Under ground floor, the garage and cave
The ground floor, bedrooms and bathrooms
The upper floor, kitchen, dining and living room. Mostly constructed in timber
A big hole with a front loader in it
another view of the big hole
front/master bedrooms floor, not poured yet.
Back bedrooms with no ceiling
In the garage
Back bedroom looking towards French windows, floor not yet cast.
Back bathroom showing soil pipes
Looking down the stairs to the garage
This is where the stairs up will go
Missed a door ?
Is that Drain too shallow ?
Where are the electric ducts ?
Robs place
Chipped the door out of the wall. Intresting construction technique
From Rob
From Rob, nice view of both chalets
From Rob, concrete shutters around the entrance hall.
From Rob, my stairs
From Rob, some more stairs
From Rob, even more stairs
Front bedroom towards what will be a bathroom on the left with the window
Under the window where the concrete doesn't go !
The inside window and doorway from the entrance hall into the kitchen/dining room
What horrors lie under this shuttering ? Why has this corner been poured separate to the wall ? Foreground wall will have fireplace against it.
View through the front door
Other side of the window
It is the Architects intention that the concrete around the top 2 windows be clad in wood down to about the level of the joint in the concrete.
Finished ground level will be the top of the black
View from the road, its going to be quite tall!
French windows will open out on to wooden balcony above the garage entrance
From Hervè, the roof going on.
From Hervè, Robs view of my chalet
The builders have patched up the ends of the wall where they cut the door out.
This open stair case is nice
This is view of the kitchen from the dining room
This is the kitchen from the entrance door way
The view from the dining room window down towards Morzine
The dining room and what will be the bacony
View from the dining room up into the salon
View from the salon towards the kitchen across the mezzanine.
The two windows above the entrance door which will light the mezzanine
The detail in the joints.
It does look like the wall is in the wrong place ?
I was sure this column should be sat on top of the concrete.
From the road
Both Chalets from the road
All the ingredients to put some gaine into my chalet
There is a hole there somewhere....
There it is.
Another hole lurking
Exposed by mister lump hammer and his friend the cold chisel
Hmmmm another example of fine craftsmanship.
Before we start
The first electrics go in
Finished the kitchen
The annoying little wire in the gaine that has no purpose.
Gaine!
This is where I damaged the new drill bit on a screw
The gaine in the salon
Gaine for the lighting
Gaine in the salon at the far end
on the other side of the salon
Another closer view of the kitchen work
Another view of the kitchen work
Balconies are real chunky
Nice Chunky woodwork
My new front door !
The back of my front door !
Window frames are in
Breaking holes for plug sockets
Chasing through concrete to run wires along
Paint test before
Paint test after
Quite a bit of wastage, will need to work out a better application method
finish detail
The snake pit
Marking out the internal walls
More internal walls
Embedding a light socket. Big gouges are to get in far enough to cut the steel rebar in the way.
This is the rain water drainage from the back of the house about to cross the garage doors.
My first consumer unit! Ahh isn't it sweet
And now with clothes on!
The other end of the wire feeding the consumer unit
Out side view.
The stone wall
Temporary electricity supply
testing the abrasive power of the angle grinder
camping in the bedroom
my first bathroom
these will be doors
internal t&g started
the chimney
Tiling...
Where the toilet goes
the electricity starts here...
goes down this pipe...
comes up from that pipe joins to some wires and down the other pipe...
comes out here and goes into the box
and the box makes the light come on
Duct actually goes the wrong way the supply is to the left
The town have bought the sewage right up to outside my house.
we must empty that septic tank
my spray gun hair drier
internal T& G finished
the water is here at last.
The Key was in the other side all along!
Opening up the kitchen walls to expose my wires
double plug sockets in the bedroom
both double sockets
and the rear view
what a messy garage, but at least it has a light!
hide all the rubbish away
We are on mains sewage!
My first real delivery
Before the walls
during wall construction
plaster board walls
another door goes here
Mr (or probably Mrs) Fox comes calling
backside of new walls
electrics detail of new walls
add insulation
bathroom wall insulation hopefully soundproof
soundproof ? insulation
varnished wood
Can you spot where the varnish stops
Mat working (very rare picture!)
Me on the roof varnishing
Hole in the wall !
From the other side
Spot the bits we missed
Beading on the barge board - The varnish works!!
My official house number or is it Robs ?
Light switch in bacthroom
Light switch and plug in bedroom
sockets in Salon
brek another hole for power in the salon
This cracked block of wood appears to be holding up the entire house!
This is what is above that block of wood
The big 2000W heater at the bottom of the stairs
Expensive switches for the heaters
Hot room heater
Bedroom heater
Door
Cant get much more in there
This is the sledge run!
Just carry the heater up the stairs
Davros !
Lot of bits that somehow fit together and give me hot water maybe
Frame it out
Insulate the frame
board out the frame
hang bloody great tank on the wall
fit together a maze of pipes and valves
plaster board finishing
Fire, I have fire!
Hot room walls
Plumbing, linked up to the mains
Hot room insulation
Delivery of wood for the mezzanine
Eddies staircase
Patch up the joints between the plaster boards
Laying the floor in the Salon, 2 layers of blue and a layer of chipboard
More of Eddies staircase
Blue on the bedroom floor
Chip board on top
Painted or plastered the wall downstairs, looks like porridge
That should hold it!
Joist hangers
Joists in place with eddie on top
Close up of joist
T & G the underside for a nice ceiling
Ceiling finished (except the trim)
There is always one nail that does not want to go in!
Frame out the wall in the kitchen
Stir up the paint/porridge
Before paint
Kitchen walls
Banisters
Insulation in mezzanine
Under the bath
Just a few doors, hanging around...
Thats a lot of tiles
Add the work tops to the kitchen
Put the ceramic hob in
Thats the shower
What it is supposed to look like
Bath taps
Unpack everything in to one of the bedrooms
Lights in the kitchen
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Base of the shower http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Walls of the shower http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Pipes behind the shower http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
I finally added the bathroom door http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Dining room floor http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Ooopps I smashed the shower door!! One minute it was in my hands the next its a pile of windscreen glass! http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Studding for the second bedroom http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Plumbing in the kitchen sink http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Plastic plumbing http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Plastic plumbing goes everywhere http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Feed across the roof from one side of the chalet to the other http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Joins the main line in the hot room, with spur for washing machine http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Taps to isolate sections of the house http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Studding for the bedroom and shower http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Nice and tidy kitchen http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
on suite shower http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Wire in the radiator http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
New doors to the shower, seem to work http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Floor in the entrance http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Second Bedroom done http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Mezzanine floor http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Jacking up the house! http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Replacement chalet support http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
landing ceiling (only a single coat of paint) http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Landing walls http://chez-richard.blogspot.com
Half rendered front view
The un rendered bit
Half way through sanding and re varnishing the balcony timbers
The router works!
A few posts
A hand rail...
Some planks....
Get Darth Vader to give it all a bit of a sand...
Then varnish it all a couple of times...
Render the outside
Finished balconies and boxed out windows
tiling the shower
The magic switch that makes the stairway lights possible
Last seen in 2009, just under 2 years ago!
