Posts by rdtsystems

Last week’s blog said that progress had slowed on the garage principally because the weather had been so wet but also because we were waiting on a wood delivery from the builders’ merchants.  This week started with similar drizzle which thankfully dried up from Wednesday and, when we got back from school on Thursday, we…

Another weather affected week which has led to sporadic progress on the garage.  While, in a perfect world, we would have preferred to build in the drier months the builder we have chosen to use is in high demand so wasn’t available, and we were conscious that we didn’t want to make too much noise…

As anticipated at the end of last week’s blog, the weather was considerably wetter and colder than we had enjoyed previously which has meant we have made much more limited progress on our garage than the previous week. It has however allowed us to focus on other tasks on our ever expanding ‘To Do’ list…

This week has again been entirely focussed on the main project – the garage – and, while we haven’t enjoyed such amazing weather we have been able to make more good progress and, on 2 of the garage bays, we have got the wooden frame up to roof level.  At the end of Day 1…

Last week’s blog said that we had sat down and generated a ‘To Do’ list for the next 12 months which stood at 103 separate tasks.  This week we have worked on a number of these items and have managed to get that list to … 112!!  Trouble being that we manage to think of…

As I mentioned in last week’s blog, this week has seen some significant progress with the garage and we are definitely now committed to at least the shape! You may recall that I chose to dig all of the foundations manually (we had the time and it seemed like the sensible option at that point)…

Sunday 16 October – Holidays are Coming … I know most people probably won’t want reminding of this, but we are now over half way through October and there are only a couple of months left until we are at Christmas again!  Looking online it tells me that there are only 69 days left to…

A much shorter blog this week (perhaps you will be relieved to hear!) As we have not been hosting guests this week we have been able to progress our garage project albeit slowly while we dodge in and out of the spring-like showers. At the start of the week I had only managed to dig…

First, I should probably apologise for not posting a blog last week.  We had been hosting David’s uncle and aunt who had only visited Brittany once many years before we moved here despite being big fans of seafood.  Since we bought Kergudon they have fallen in love with the region and we are delighted that they…

As I look back on the past week it seems as though I have spent all of my time painting, or if not actually applying paint, then doing the preparatory work required to do so. In last week’s blog I said that we were going to paint much of the exterior wood around Kergudon the…