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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