Running a Gite in BrittanyFed up with life in the UK we moved to France for a new start. Left behind the private schooling, traffic jams and housing estates for a better quality of life. We now live in Brittany, France running gites (holiday cottages).Living room and hall- June 21, 2008 With the floor finished the metal studwork has been built in the lounge, insulated using 100mm glass fibre with a vapour barrier. The photo was taken a couple of days ago and the room has now been plasterboarded. There is also a wall for the hall that runs across separating the stairs and front door from the lounge. You can just see the edge of the wall as the camera position is in the hallway. Yesterday I started taping and jointing the stairwell at the end of the hallway because the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2008/06/21.html#a526 Floor finished- June 16, 2008 It took a little longer than expected but finally the oak floorboards are down ! I'm really happy with the result and very pleased with the look of the boards. The photo only shows progress half-way across the floor, but you would get the general idea. After my previous experience of laying pine floorboards I was much more careful about getting every row straight and flush before proceeding with the next row. Every plank was checked for splinters, or muck in the groove and all the tongues swept.http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2008/06/16.html#a525 Progress update- June 11, 2008 Progress has been fairly good recently. I've been a bit tardy updating the blog because of the long days and general tireness. Some more of the plumbing has been completed with piping runs to the kitchen area and bathrooms. The hot water tank has also been installed, however not operational yet. Most of the pipework is turned off, isolated at the valves, whilst the bathrooms are being tiled. The only other work upstairs that has been completed is that the floors have been cleaned (with...http://radio.weblogs.com/0136203/2008/06/11.html#a524 |