A Covid Project...

While we were in lock-down we created some light entertainment to keep busy.
 So in the meantime, between our exercise routine of, walking the dog, cycling around our little village of Martinborough and  gardening - At one stage I thought our section would end up looking like a set for 'The Good Life' I started up my trusty CAD program, and this is the result.
The project a bedroom, it had been proposed for a while the only challenge we couldn't get started until we got down to level 3, that's when we were able to get deliveries from our local timber merchant and hardware store (Mitre 10).

 The doors were extremely heavy and big, so we had to construct them upstairs, they're made of 2 standard 2100 doors glue together using a MDF batten system to hold them together,
probably a bit over-engineered but they turned out quite well.
The fitting was a bit exciting hooking the 80kg door on to the overhead runner.

The Finishing Touches

Another job completed, the last coat of oil on the Cedar cladding.
All quite safe using the movable scaffolding, although its quite a long way to the ground, Sue completed the operation with one hand, the other holding on...

A View From The top

To trim the hedge I have built a walkway along the top which is removable so I can move very carefully along the top with the hedge trimmer.

The Hedge or the Fence?

Our section or block, is surrounded by hedges, Horn-beam, English Beech and Leland Cypress, the Leland is on the road side and had the original 5 wire farm fence which was well past its use-by date, no stock had been near it for at least 18 years.

It had chicken wire along the road side to stop our dog from straying - all very glamorous.
But first we had to remove the concrete posts which was a bit of a challenge they had been in the ground for probably 25 years, and were not designed to move, plus they were a tad heavy.

So I had to resort to a Heath Robinson system  using a 2500kg jack to lift the posts, using some old chain, some lumps of wood and - 'It worked' not the drama I was expecting.
Each post took both of us to lift, about 60kg each - there were only six...
Now to be re-purposed as edging for the drive.

I had organised our local contractor to help with the removal, using one of there loaders to do this but what with the Covid 19 lock down, we weren't going to see them for at least another 2 months.

After we had cleared the fence it all look very park-like, so decided to leave it open, The problem was to keep the dog in, Mrs DIY came up with the perfect solution, a fence on the inside, made with some reinforcing mesh that we had purchase for a garden structure.

So while I was on the other side Mrs DIY built the 'dog fence',

Covid-19 Total Isolation - Day 2 - Fending Off Boredom

Hurrah, I've done it, I have my blog back, for some reason I couldn't get in to add new posts.
So as we now in total isolation with Covid-19 and it's a raining and we have cleaned dusted cleaned again, fed the dog, been soaked 2 times taking the dog for a walk, washed by hands for the 40th time disinfected all the door handles.
Made our 5th cup of tea, I settled down to finding out why I couldn't make my blog work.
Well it was really simple fix (wrong address) Duh!!
I will continue to update and share some of our confinement adventures...

Charlie