OUR BUILDING WORK

The old Utility room got torn down at the back of the house with the help of our little digger, and once the rubble was cleared the electrics made safe, outside water pipes moved and the hole in the back of the house boarded up, phew there always seems a list of jobs to accomplish first before you can really get started.  We could finaly start up the digger and get digging, it was tough going, the area is rock bed and shale Work was painfully slow as Martin battled against rock bed, trying to get digging done between farm chores and work Of course there were teething problems , catching the electric cable and shorting out the power to the house, then the digger bucket severing the sewerage pipe  Here is a short video showing the progress of the footings Now the footings are complete, next stage is getting building control out to inspect and pass then we can order the concrete and get moving.

  Before we could even get a spade in the ground we had to sort out a storage area, as the utility room needed to come down first and there was no way I could manage without a washing machine, no room in the house for one, also there was lots of kitchen stuff that I used regularly in that utility room I needed access to. The barn at the side of the house seemed the most obvious place, a corner was cleared out and Sid Martin’s brother built in a storage area  The washing machine also got plumed in there, bit of a bind when the weather is bad and you have run round the outside of the house to put the washing on.,  Of course the stuff that was stored in that corner of the barn had to be housed else where. This was the push needed to finish off the the other barn that housed Martin’s workshop., with the cladding finished electric brought in we had some where to house all the other stuff Now we had some where to move all the stuff out of the barn we’re it could be stored and kept dry, as a

 We moved here to Stickle Tarn in Carmarthenshire July 2014 This is our home a typical welsh farmhouse, we love our home and over the past seven years we have been busy sorting out fencing, setting up growing areas, creating a home for our livestock, now it’s time to sort our home and turn it into a functional dream home that will accommodate our needs for the present day and for the future. We are now getting damp issues The house has thick stone walls and damp is seeping through in the kitchen and living room Air circulation is very poor in the house because the windows only have a small opening at the top, contributing to mould growth. There is very little storage areas, and the small storage room at the back of the house   Was like an ice box and a leaky one that that, many a time we had to put on coats and wellies to venture in there, it was not suitable to store food, and any kitchen utensils stored there would have to be washed before use. The plan is build a new big kitchen ext