Steady couple of days working on multiple aspects. Not sure if that’s the officially best approach, or if I should stick to one thing until it’s finished.but it seems to be working for me.
The Irbal 125 and I knocked out our first mix and covered the pipes as far as we could. This is going to be a multiple phase trench filling project becasue I’d like to get the gite’s power supply to run through it too. Can’t do that until Monsieur Filet of Fish’s lads have finished their digging next week.
Kitchen is coming along.
The back wall is bowed in two directions so getting the units to line up reasonably well has taken quite a bit of time. I hope its worth it but pleased so far with how it is turning out.
The damage done during the horse box journey is apparent in a few places but once they’re full of provisions, hopefully it may not be that noticeable. It’s a shabby old kitchen for a shabby old farm house and at least this kitchen will have a few stories to tell it’s grand children.
Soil pipe finally set and reaching to the upstairs bathroom. Before the bathroom plumbing though, the wiring needs sorting out - at the moment there’s a double socket where the shower’s going and the English regs aren’t keen on that sort of thing. Not sure how the French rules would view it.
Did a spot of 'precision plumbing' with the laser level- well that's the intention but it doesn't usually come out as precise as Jim would like.
Sequencing takes up a lot of my thoughts and that’s a link to work. I should be familiar with what Lean thinking comes up with because I’ve been practicing it for over ten years but it still surprises sometimes. Take this example:
The easiest, quickest, neatest time to paint behind the soil pipe and toilet is before they go in. The blank wall gets a roller of trade matt white, then the soil pipe location is dictated by the toilet’s outlet so that comes next and therefore the ‘correct’ sequence is:
Paint wall, fit toilet, pour concrete.
I think the building industry would do those in the opposite order but my way worked fine. I was careful not to splash the walls with wet concrete and there’s a bit of dust where the holes were drilled for Rawl plugs but that will wipe off. Time saved, quality improved, what’s not to like?
Estimating quantities has seen a few errors creep in. The plumbing fun must stop for a while because I've run out of pipe inserts but on the other side of the coin, here are the left over kitchen cupboard doors-
I thought that horse box was heavy. We can use a couple in the utility room possibly or maybe another unit on the right of the oven where the fridge may go..and its always good to have spare handles.. Oops.