Mon 10/05/10

Well today i was back out on site at the Folke­stone project, crack­ing on down there putting up the Kent grown Chest­nut feather edge board, this was a change on what we were orig­i­nally going to use, which was locally scourced Ash, but we couldn’t find enough that was sta­ble enough to use.

There wasn’t alot done on the exten­sion today as Sharon had a few cus­tomers in the shop & she gave the shop a good spring clean to boot!!

We’ll be upload­ing some picture’s of the project @ Folke­stone over the next cou­ple of days were you will see the “boat house” start to transform.

Sat 08/05/10

Shop was fairly busy today so we didn’t man­age to get much done in the exten­sion except have a real good clear up so we are ready for the next stage.

Fri 07/05/10

Another good day in the exten­sion, the quar­an­tine room walls have been sanded & have had the first coat of paint, Sharon made short work of it.

I fin­ished the stair­case alteration’s which is now ready for Sharon to put the sealer coat of var­nish on over the weekend.

Were plan­ning some­thing spe­cial for the out­side of the quar­an­tine walls but you’ll have to fol­low this blog & check out the gallery to find out what were going to do!!

Thurs 06/05/10

Had a really good day in the exten­sion, Sharon set about the stair­case, pre­ping it ready for var­nish­ing over the next few days, but she’ll have to wait for me to fin­ish alter­ing the wall by the stairs which i should have done tomorrow.

Also man­aged to get the sec­ond coat of filler on the quar­an­tine room walls, this will be sanded on Fri­day ready for painting.….…..but you’ll have to guess the colour!!

Tues 04/5/10

Today we had a really good day work­ing on the exten­sion, Sharon con­tin­ued “clean­ing the brick­work” down, Ezz our 20yr old son was on had today to give us an extra boost, he spent the day on site & got the first coat of “joint­ing filler” on the quar­an­tine walls & con­creted a trench that is no longer required.

I finally got the stairs fin­ished with all the ply riser’s fit­ted, along with plas­ter board­ing to the top of the stair well which leads into the loft space, every one was happy at the end of the day.

Mon 03/5/10

•  Sharon was in the shop today tak­ing care of things whilst i was out fibre-glassing a pond for a cus­tomer in Rams­gate & Tues­day i will be back on site at Folke­stone cladding the Boat house with the Ches nut featheredge

Sun 02/5/10

•  I man­aged to get the remain­ing sheets of plas­ter­board up on  out­side of the quar­an­tine room walls today, another job done.

 

Sat 01/5/10

• We had a real busy day in the shop, with a lot of cus­tomers in, i only man­aged to get cou­ple of sheets of plas­ter­board up on the quar­an­tine walls.

Fri 30/04/10

• Sharon was on “brick clean­ing duty” today, the front of the new dis­play vats needed some atten­tion after the ren­der went on  a few weeks ago, so with brick acid at the ready she set about the task!      

Thurs 29/04/10

• I was out on site today at Folke­stone crack­ing on down there. Sharon spent the day in the shop with cus­tomers & doing the water changes in the dis­play tanks.

Tues 27/04/10

• Sharon had a busy day in the shop today with cus­tomers in & out, so she didn’t get much done in the exten­sion, she man­aged to do some touch­ing up & had a real good tidy up!!

Mon 26/04/10

• Both Sharon & I had a day in the exten­sion & we got a load of lit­tle jobs out of the way, Sharon had the red paint out again & sec­ond  coated the back walls, I man­aged to get a head start on the back wall electrics & got them all in the con­duit, I’m really glad that job is out of the way!

Sun 25/04/10

• I man­aged to finally get the first lot of elec­tri­cal sock­ets fixed & in posi­tion on the front walls, all that now remains to be done on these walls is to fit the secu­rity bars to the windows.….….….….…but I’ve still got to make them.

Sat 24/04/10

• Today was a busy day in the shop with cus­tomers & we had a spe­cial visit from our close friends’ from Hol­land, so not much got done in the extension.

 Fri 23/04/10

• Sharon has been a busy lady over the last cou­ple of days with the paint brush & roller, the walls are look­ing really stun­ning now, we can finally start to see it all com­ing together.….……slowly!!

Tues 20/04/10

• Sharon had the paint brushes’ out again today, her mis­sion was to sec­ond coat the front 2 walls that i had sec­ond fixed the electrics on Mon­day & after return­ing from Folke­stone i must admit they looked stun­ning, its a deep red color which really suites the Japan­ese theme were cre­at­ing in the shop exten­sion, now the walls have been done i can finally fix the socket drops onto the wall & that’s the last thing i need to do to these walls only 3 more to go!!

Mon 19/04/10

• Today was an odd day really; i had some chas­ing around to do for the project at Folke­stone­sort­ing the roof tiles for the Boat House, the after­noon was spent sec­ond fix­ing the electrics with there pro­tec­tive con­duit now in place, i only man­aged to get both the front walls sorted as the take a lit­tle time to do each socket drop but the end result was very pleasing.

Thurs 17/04/10

• Paint­ing was the order of the day again & Sharon was on tap again with brush in hand, Red paint was today’s color, the front walls were cut in & painted, the back walls were also cut in again with there sec­ond coat ready for there final coat which will go on next week.

Fri 16/04/10

• Today was a busy day at  the shop, not a lot got done in the exten­sion as we had deliv­er­ies arriv­ing ready for cus­tomers orders’ plus the nor­mal Fri­day busi­ness with cus­tomers call­ing in get­ting all the week­end bits ready to go.

 Tues 13/04/10 

• Work on the exten­sion resumed today after a few days break, I’ve been busy down on the folke­stone project get­ting the roof pitched.
• Sharon has been busy with the paint brush again, there are a lot of walls to be painted & as usual Sharon is just the lady for the job.

Mon 06/04/10

• Today seemed to “going back­wards”, the water main that we put into the quar­an­tine room just wouldn’t stop drip­ping! So we tried a dif­fer­ent type of pipe & fit­tings & it still leaked, so to allow us to con­tinue we have just put a stop end on the water main & left a gap by the waste water gully for a con­nec­tion late on, this wont hold us up, it will allow us to fin­ish the room & retro fit the water ser­vice on after the walls are finished.
• Work in the exten­sion is on hold for a few days this week as the weather is dry & good so work on the Folke­stone project can now re-sume, the Boat house roof is going on Tues/Weds, check out the Folke­stone Project page for up to date pictures.

Sun 05/04/10

• Although it’s Easter Sun­day work in the exten­sion still went on, we car­ried on with the stud work walls around the quar­an­tine room & now that were happy with its posi­tion, were able to plan how we are going to set the inside of the room out.

Sat 03/04/10

• The shop was quite busy today so work in the exten­sion seemed a bit slow, although we did man­age to get the Quar­an­tine Room set out & the some of the stud work walls laid out.

Fri­day 02/04/10

• Thurs­day was spent on site at Folke­stone as the weather was good & the roof tim­bers were being deliv­ered to site, so noth­ing hap­pened in the shop, Fri­day 02/04/10 saw the weather ease slightly (heavy show­ers through out the day), but it did allow me to finally get the last few bits on the front of the shop sorted, the gut­ter & facia needed atten­tion after the win­ter snow & was dually removed, cleaned & replaced, Sharon con­tin­ued with the paint­ing inside, only 1 white wall left now, then the whole shop will need a sec­ond coat!! (Sharon cant wait until it’s fin­ished, she’s sick of paint­ing now, but she’s still got the ren­der on the tanks to do as yet)Over the Easter week­end we will be upload­ing some pic­tures of the shop build for you to look at.

Weds 31/03/10

• Today has been a bit of a wash out all round, rain has stopped play on the out­side of the shop, the drainage runs at the back of the shop wont go in until the trench is empty of water (cur­rently 6″ in the bot­tom of the trench).

Tues 30/03/10

• Today’s progress seemed slow after yesterday’s efforts on the stair­case, Sharon spent the day prepar­ing around the stairs ready for paint­ing, i had to orga­nize some mate­ri­als for the project at Folke­stone, which seemed to take most of the morn­ing, the after­noon was spent work­ing on the dou­ble barn doors which have­been clad in tongue & groove to match the out­side, but the weather was rough this after­noon which held up some of the work to the doors.

Mon­day 29/03/2010

• After spend­ing what seemed liked months going back­wards putting in drainage for the fish sales’ tanks, the water mains to the var­i­ous points around the shop, putting up ceil­ings, rewiring the entire shop, build­ing the dis­play tanks we are now see­ing some light at the end of our tun­nel, we’ve been work­ing on our shop expan­sion for just over 7 months now, the unit we are expand­ing is a 1200 sq ft barn adjoin­ing our exist­ing shop, this is going to be ded­i­cated purely to house Japan­ese koi for sale after quar­an­tine, & was a basic empty shell with floor & wall’s but noth­ing else, elec­tric sup­ply was there work­ing one light, & there was no run­ning water in the building.

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