Jobs I have done myself
- Applied for planning, appointed planning consultant and aesthetic design architect, cleared planning conditions, technical design.
- Cleared the site, cut down trees and bushes and set out dig
- Supervised drilling of boreholes
- Installed pipes and grouted in and installed borehole soakaways
- Supervised digger and set levels and batters for basement
- Blinded oversite
- Built reinforced concrete floor
- Loaded out blocks for whole basement
- Laid land drain
- Built some basement blocks and did some labouring
- Tidied site and cleaned wheelbarrow and mixer
- Concreted hollow blocks and ring-beam
- Fixed and welded steelwork
- Fitted floor planks and set out levels and square for ground floor
- Installed bespoke dpc trays over basement windows
- Ordered all materials
- Found brickie(s) and labourer
- Pointed brickwork
- Loaded out some bricks
- Laid loads of blocks
- Tidied up site
- Fixed steel
- Fitted almost all the cavity wall insulation
- Fitted first floor planks (with Philip and a labourer)
- Concrete grouted first floor
- Set out bathroom plumbing pipes ready to build in
- Took photographs and time lapse video (Eleanor the webmaster edited the video).
- Ordered all materials for whole job, quantity surveyed materials, worked out programme of operations, supervised all stages of the job.
- Did all setting out of walls and windows, marked datums with Philips laser level.
- Made a few mistakes (see pages available when job is finished “things that went wrong”)
- Built roof with Philip and David and a crane.
- Set out first floor walls by laying first course.
- Supervised scaffolders, demonstrated battening of ceilings to David who did most of this job.
- Put on/took off hessian protection to bricks and blocks
- Showed visitors around
- Tiled some of the roof, decided verge detail and fixed first few verge tiles, fixed mechanical hold down ties to end ridges.
- Fitted solar panels to roof
- Laid blocks to basement walls
- Fitted ductwork for MHRV
- Fitted windows, window boards, reveal insulation and linings
- Tacked ceilings (with Philip)
- Cleaned brickwork
- Air duct work
- Carried all the plaster to first floor
- Installed central vacuum system
- Installed thermocouples
- Built board for wiring computerised control centre
- Carried all the plaster to first floor
- Fitted glass to basement windows
- Plumbed in hot cylinder and loft tanks
- Ordered ironmongery, doors, appliances
- Planned kitchen
- Carried all the cement up for the first floor screed and mixed most of it up.
- Made the oak front door frame
- Constructed and fixed the fitted wardrobes
- Painted the ceilings and bedrooms 2 & 3
- Knotted and primed the skirtings
- Fitted the bath and shower tray, WC’s etc
- Kept the site reasonably tidy
- Built the elliptical raised level ceiling in the lounge
- Formed the basement window reveals mitigating thermal bridges as I went
- Carried cement for the floor screed to the first floor
- Fitted heated towel radiators
- tiled ensuite
- set out kerb edges
- all plumbing
- with Mark fitted kitchen
- tarmac contract
- landscape prep
- laid patio
- basement floor laying
- basement skitings, architraves, store room shelves
- fitted office desk
- hung pictures
- made and fixed wooden tiles in Wc and bases for contorted willow screne
- cleaned windows
- made the sculpture with my tools that I have now hung up
- built glass porch
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