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Little House in the Jura

All about our house-building project. We're building a house in France, in the Jura mountains overlooking Lake Geneva. And when we say "building" we mean it. Everything from the foundations up to the top of the basement with our own fair hands (plus those of friends and family). Sometime towards the end of 2008 (all being well), a log home company will come and build a log structure on top of our slipform masonry basement. Between now and then, there's a lot of work to be done ...

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2005-06-29

The trials of acquiring a concrete mixer

Went to SAMSE yesterday evening to buy a mixer. Nice little machine, dismantles so I can put it in the back of the Land Rover. They dismantled it for me and loaded it into the aforementioned Land Rover. Got to the site, all ready to start mixing, and found they'd forgotten an all-important part so I couldn't use it. GRRR.

This, by the way, is the outfit that supplied me with:
  • a defective radio and no battery charger with my electric screwdriver;
  • the wrong connector for my compressor;
  • scaffolding with a broken retaining pin.
Doing well, aren't they?

posted by Steve Rawcliffe | 16:02

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

They obviously want you to finish your house in about 10 years...

30 June 2005 at 11:38  

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