tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51060078356457133152024-03-13T13:29:15.509-07:00Garden,pond,home and life diary for hevsdaveGarden and house DIY construction projects.Life diary for hevsdave atWalcotDavid Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05732661044977967344noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106007835645713315.post-73207471711057479162017-01-30T10:01:00.000-08:002017-01-31T06:16:32.266-08:00December trip to Porto<h2>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><u>Porto in December</u></span></h2>
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<b>Before we returned to the uk ,because of the timing of our Rede Expressos coach arriving at Porto and the time of our Easyjet flight to the UK we found the need to stay in Porto overnight.We arranged to stay at Reis de Gaia , a comfortable hotel on the south bank of the Douro in the heart of the Port warehouse area.We arrived about lunch time and spent the afternoon and evening strolling and exploring the streets of Porto.</b><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u>Planting a new Orchard on the Plateau</u></span></h2>
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<b>I know that the new orchard does not look very impressive at the moment but this is only the start.We have planted up to date two pomegranates, three pear,one peach,one nectarine,one fig and an apricot.They all have drip irrigation to their roots and we hope that they are not uprooted by the wild boar which seem to root around and play in the plateau in the winter and early spring.We hope to plant up more on the plateau when we return late march and eventually we hope to cover the plateau with fruit trees.We will post an update in the spring and some photos in the spring showing blossom ,growth etc.</b><br />
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<b>We have also planted a large number of daffodils and as you can see the area is starting to green up with grass which we will need to strim [More work!]</b><br />
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<b>We have also planted some camellias , magnolias , myrtles and a tree hibiscus on this area.</b><br />
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<b>This photo shows the sloping bed overlooking the pool.We pruned the grape back hard ,weeded the bed and planted it up with a range of spring bulbs and lillies</b><br />
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<b>Red bouganvillia which has grown enormously since we planted it in June .Just hope they all survive the winter frosts.We have heard that the temperature in mid January got down to -6 c !!</b><br />
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This was our first sight of the the house and smallholding we bought November 2014 after many months of searching in the central part of Portugal.Why this area?Cheap prices,rural location and good weather ! Originally we had chased a property near Tabua which had been modernised but had no mains water or electricity.There was a well nearby and electricity connections available within 300 metres but after exhaustive negotiations with EDP ,the electricity supplier for Portugal we found that the cost for cabling and connecting would have been prohibitive,nearly 13,000 euros!! We said thanks but no thanks and continued looking.<br />
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Why this particular house?It was the views that took our breath away and the position.We could see across and up the valley for miles and we liked the feel and look of the house.Although we realised the house would need a lot of modernisation to get it up to scratch we managed to negotiate a good price with the owner,a widow with thirteen children! There was also the potential of a stone house to renovate next to it as well !</div>
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Although there was much to do with the the house, it did have mains water and electricity,a bore hole and a tarmacked road leading to it .We were a little concerned with the state of the stone house as the roof leaked like a sieve right over the mains fuse box and there were gaping holes in the floor.</div>
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The land that came with the house was another plus for us.I think there is about 1.5 acres in all .The house was originally a small farm (Quinta) and the owners made a living out of growing grapes and making wine.In the stone house is a large concrete vat in which the grapes were processed and in the cellar are three stainless steel storage vessels where the raw wine was allowed to mature.<br />
The grapes are grown in 5 terraces built into the side of the valley slope with a small plateau at the top of the hill and a grove at the bottom of the slope bordered by a small stream.<br />
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This is the plateau.On it are a small area of eucalyptus, which we plan to coppice for fire wood ,a concrete reservoir and a pill box shaped pump house for the bore hole.Most of this area is covered with rock roses which should look lovely when they flower in March<br />
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All the terraces have Olives planted ,some of which look very old.The weather last year was cold and wet and very few of the olive flowers set.There are some citrus trees,an orange ,lemon and Clementine .There are also some peculiar fruit trees that we have never heard of including a"Desporo"otherwise known as a sharon fruit.Maybe an export from Essex lol!<br />
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Lovely autumn colours and now we have cleared the terrace.</div>
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The courtyard with ripening grapes. Mmmmmm!<br />
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Middle Patio leading to the main living floor of the house.The big house was split in to two levels .At one time the whole family lived on this floor with three bedrooms ,two living rooms ,two kitchens and a tiny bathroom.As the family expanded extra bedrooms were sectioned of on the loft floor and half the family of 15 lived up there.<br />
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A lot of the building work when it was first carried out was carried out to a very basic level and none of the block and brick work was rendered . The verandah was never properly tanked and waterproofed so the room underneath was damp.<br />
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Just at the end of the house is an orange tree.Not a great position but lovely tasting fruit !<br />
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This is the garage.Hopefully we will be able to resuscitate the building and replace the corrugated iron sheets which cover the garage, with a timber and tile roof .<br />
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This is the second terrace which was overgrown with bracken and brambles.<br />
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The roof of the small stone house will have to be completely replaced.It leaks like a sieve !<br />
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<u>Interior of the house Top Floor Before improvement</u></h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old storage chest where clothes and bedding were stored.We aim to keep this and do it up.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think a lot of the building work was carried out by the previous owners</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great views from the top floor out over the valley. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We plan to replace the tiles on the roof and insulate it as at present it us unbearably hot on this floor in the summer and freezing in cold weather </td></tr>
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<u>Ground Floor Before Renovation</u></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the second kitchen ,part of a single story extension built to accommodate a large family.This room we plan to turn into a bathroom. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the bathroom which serviced a family of 15 so it was a very busy room !!We plan to strip it out and make it an en suite bathroom .</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This room with an archway will be knocked together to make a dining room and the window to the right will be knocked out to make a new back door.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u>Renovation of the Top floor</u></span></h3>
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<span style="color: blue;">We chose our builder Paulo Pires from local recommendation and from looking at his quality building work.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">His Company is <b><u>Justo Rigor estud e projectos</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Pedragoa Grande</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"> Telephone 00351 918 457 209 </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">1.Strip off old tiles on roof</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">10.Skim all floors with concrete to cover over new wiring conduit , water pipes and drains laid on the floor</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Soon after we bought the property it became apparent that in order to save the stone house from collapse urgent remedial action would need to be taken.Our builder recommended we install a concrete tie beam around the top layer of stones to stabilise the house and that it should be re roofed ASAP !</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the upper bedrooms had a massive hole in the floor where the grapes were tipped into a concrete vat below to ferment into wine.Presumably the hole wasn't there permanently as it would have made it rather a dangerous room to live in ,especially if you were a sleep walker !! </td></tr>
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Raised bed on terrace and newly rendered wall.Arum growing in the raised bed.<br />
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Ridge caps on both roofs.</div>
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Note the little minarets on the ridge capping,traditional touch !</div>
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Living room floor tiling completed.</div>
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On the fifth terrace we discovered a small orchard of apple trees just budding.They had not been looked after or pruned for a long time but we have now cut out the dead wood and cleared the undergrowth around them.Who knows ,we should get some sort of harvest from them in August !</div>
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This terrace next to the house will be where our swimming pool will be built.We have just strimmed and cleared it.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RAbVhiwoUnE/VRgGYbqDsVI/AAAAAAAAaoI/uZsB1rtxiWw/s1600/IMG_0911.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RAbVhiwoUnE/VRgGYbqDsVI/AAAAAAAAaoI/uZsB1rtxiWw/s1600/IMG_0911.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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We were very excited to see the concrete shell the drains ,skimmer and pump pipes go in.It still looks very raw but you can get some sort of idea what the finished pool will look like.!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were some pleasant surprises when we made our inspection trip in September.The insulation for the roof and the ceiling boarding were finished <and the floor tiling was complete. It looked clean and habitable .We could furnish it at last. Just the shower room and the kitchen left to fit and wall tile.</span></div>
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The pool was at last filled and the filters and pumps were working.While we were there a lot of the tiling around the pool was done and we got some sort of idea what the whole project would look like when completed.We have decided to build a pool shelter on the north end of the pool to give shelter in the height of the summer when the temperature rises to the high 30s !</div>
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During our stay the wooden floor was built.The ground floor had been lined with tijola blocks to keep the damp out as the building had been built into the side of the hillside.Even so damp was seeping through so it has been decided to tile the blocks as well.</div>
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This piggery will be renovated and made into a wood shed</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><u>Pool Shelter, Wood shed and Demolition of old out buildings</u></span></h3>
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When we visited Estevianas in June we decided that we needed a shelter on the pool terrace where we could shelter from the sun in the heat of the day.The temperature on the pool terrace climbed to 35 degrees c in the heat of the day so heaven knows what it gets too in July and August.The old piggeries were an eyesore but it was decided to retain one of the outbuildings ,reroof it and convert it into a wood shed.The back retaining wall of the piggeries was also kept as a boundary wall .This will be strengthened rendered and painted eventually<br />
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<u>February 2016 Inspection Trip</u></h2>
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Due to wet weather and inertia nothing much happened over this period.The tiling on the pool terrace was finished,the pool shelter, wood shed and walls were finished ,rendered and painted.<br />
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The interior of the house is almost complete apart from shower screens for the bathrooms.It does not look traditionally Portuguese but it is modern ,bright and we love it.</div>
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Bedroom ground floor<br />
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Twin room ,top floor<br />
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The whole of the main building has now been painted white.We are waiting for gutters and shutters to be installed.</div>
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A great deal of progress had been made here.The drainage and sub floor water services had been concreted over and hidden.Both doors ,windows and roof gutters had been installed and a wooden staircase and bannisters had also been built so the bones of the building is now complete and safe .We will take our time now and ensure our little bed sit is completed in keeping with the old character of the building but making sure it is comfortable.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"> <u>Shutters , Gutters and Doors and windows on the Stone House</u></span></h3>
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We put the shutters in for security and also to keep the house cool in summer.The gutters keep the paintwork good at the base of the building,otherwise rainwater would pour off the roof and splash on the ground below.This sounds obvious but a lot of houses in rural Portugal don't have gutters.We also had the rest of the pool terrace paved and the terraces ,outdoor stairs and corridor tiled.</div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><u>June Time to start our Garden</u></span></h2>
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<span style="color: orange;">We used mini sprinklers which would water a number of plants at once.These included Bougainvillea, Osteospermum,Bottlebrush,Daturas ,Geraniums and assorted succulents..We trusted the irrigation to work and waited to return in August for our long summer break.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;">When we returned in August most of the plants had thrived .The Portulacas and Dahlias were in flower and the Bougainvilleas had doubled in size.We decided to turn our attention to the plateau.Heather painted the perimeter wall which was the only part of the piggeries left standing and we planted this up with climbing plants including Wisteria,Campsis,Alemandra and Passion flower.Friends of ours ,Kath and Dave ,had been looking after some plants which we had propagated in the Uk including Tecoma Stans and Oleanders which we have decided to use as hedging plants around the perimeter of the whole plot.It may take a few years to hedge the entire area but we will get there! We also planted Camellias, Lantana ,Magnolia and Hibiscus.</span></div>
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Oleander and Tecoma Stans hedge planted.Looks a bit sparse but they make huge plants eventually.<br />
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I would like to share with you the start of a nightmare holiday in Portugal and also give you the benefit of our observations on this experience!<br />
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This was our third trip to Portugal.Our relations generously give us the use of their house in Central Portugal and to reach their house and get about we usually hire a small car from Lisbon Airport.I surfed the net and found a web site called Economy Car Rentals who gave a choice of Hire car firms that operate from Lisbon Airport.I chose a firm called Gold Cars after paying an insurance premium to Economy Car Rentals to <u>Ostensibly </u> cover the first €1200 of any potential accident that we might have! At mid day on the 9th September we picked up a smart Fiat Panda and decided we would drive to Peniche for a swim and bite to eat.<br />
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<u> I</u>magine the scene,a bright sunny day,azure blue sea ,a great start to the holiday ! I parked in a busy car park just above the beach at Balleal.We unpacked our costumes and towels from the boot of the Panda,carefully leaving our hand bags in the boot away from public gaze and locking up.<br />
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We swam ,basked in the sun, ate a snack at a beachside cafe and finally returned to the car a couple of hours later.I didn't recognise our car at first .The only Panda had a large beach towel draped over the passenger rear side window.We realised why can as we came closer !The towel hid the fact that the window had been smashed ,scattering glass all over the back seat.We also noticed in horror that the rear seat back had been pulled forward and our luggage tampered with.When we opened the boot we realised that our hand bags had been taken in which were kept our passports,credit cards ,driving licences and foreign currency leaving us fairly destitute apart from 20 euro in Heather's pocket.</div>
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With the help of an english speaker from a nearby beach cafe we contacted the local police station(Thank the lord we still had our mobile phones !) who eventually turned up in a squad car,gave a cursory look at the damage and indicated that we should follow them to the local Police station.We spent the next three hours giving statements ,contacting insurance companies,British Embassy and the car Hire company "Gold Cars"who told us to drive the damaged Fiat back to their depot at lisbon airport.</div>
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We endured a breezy ,noisy, drive back to the Airport.The staff of Gold Cars examined the damage and told us to report to the shop in the foyer of the airport.We were there presented with a bill for 650 euros for a smashed window and a forced door lock and also had to pay for another hire car rental which was touch and go as strictly speaking without a driving licence we should not have been driving in Portugal !</div>
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This was the low point of our trip.Fortunately we managed to get my brother to pay for the cost of a hotel room for the night and the next day we obtained temporary debit cards from our portuguese bank which enabled us to pay for temporary passports (135 euros each Ow!) and we finally could resume our Holiday.</div>
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When we arrived home i tried to claim on the extra insurance I had taken out with <u>www.economycarrentals.com </u></div>
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This insurance was supposed to cover the first 1200 euros of any potential damage to the hire car which was not covered by Gold Car's insurance.They told me to my horror that a break in to a hire car was specifically EXCLUDED from their policy.No mention of this GLARING exclusion was made in the promotional advertising on their web page.As far as i was concerned it was an all singing ,all dancing ,fool proof insurance policy.How wrong can you be!!!!!!!</div>
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The final twist of the knife in our financial belly was that our travel insurance which was taken out and endorsed by" The Mail " would not pay out for our theft of money ,documents and out of pocket expenses which amounted to over £700 because the theft was from "an unattended motor vehicle" (No doubt if we had been sitting in the vehicle as the thief carried out the smash and grab we would have been covered ! NOT)</div>
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1.Never leave precious documents and money in an unattended hire car.</div>
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4.Take out comprehensive insurance with the car hire company for damage to the car and not with a third party such as www.economycarrentals.com</div>
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5.Read every bit of small print including exclusions from your insurances.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Roll on forty two years I happened to notice that two of my ageing music idols were performing at the 2013 event,namely Bruce Springstein and Tom Petty.There were many other more contemporary luminaries performing on the same weekend, most of whom I had never heard of,but the ageing rockers were the musicians I wanted to see perform live before either they or I departed this mortal coil ! Heather,Michael and his friend Andy were also keen to attend and revive their dwindling "Yoof"</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> We drove to Lymington in sheeting wind and rain on Thursday night arriving there about 9 praying that the weather would clear for the festival.On the journey down we were dismayed to hear tales of cars being swallowed in bottomless pools of liquid mud in the make shift car parks at the festival venue and endless traffic jams criss crossing the Island.By the time we had feasted on Chicken Jalfrezi and Mutton Vindaloo at the convenient Indian restaurant on the High street we felt a little more optimistic especially as the rain and wind had cleared and we boarded the ferry in cheerful mood.What fools we were !</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> The sea was like a mill pond and we were hopeful that we would travel the twenty miles to Newport from Yarmouth in less than an hour.Within 15 minutes we had ground to a halt at he end of a traffic jam and for the next six hours travelled no more than a few miles.Needless to say we slept in the car along with our tents, clothes,food and about two dozen bottles of home brewed cider.The Black Hole of Calcutta would have been an attractive alternative ! </span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Early morning Heather and i scouted out the lay of the land and discovered we were no more than three miles from the Festival grounds but unfortunately the car parks were impassable and new ones were currently being sourced by the organisers.On our scouting expedition we had noticed an abandoned garden centre which had gone bankrupt with a CONVENIENT tarmacked car park with lots off empty spaces.As no one appeared to be travelling in the opposite direction we raced back to the car ,woke Michael and Andy ,pulled the car over , overtook the long queue and made it to the promised land of the car park!!!! HALLELUJAH</span><br />
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When we arrived at the "Pleasure Gardens"imagine our horror when we were greeted from a scene akin to the Seventh Pit of Hell but mud substituting for flames!There were rivers,nay OCEANS of mud.It flowed in places,was stagnant in others.As you will see in one of my later videos whole tents were consumed in the morass and who can say if people had also not been swallowed in it as well.Quicksand would have been a preferable surface to walk over !Somewhere in this horror we had to erect a tent.Within five minutes Heather had managed to fall face first into the bog.When I pulled her out ,at great risk to myself I may add,she rather resembled a tar baby.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well,astounding that we came here for entertainment but somehow we did have fun in our adversity.In a distant part of the grounds we found a patch clear of mud.Fortunately we had a trial run of erecting our tents so managed to do so and return to the car for more supplies.The booze was more of a problem as our rucksacks were searched for imported alchohol but we managed to get around that problem by emptying our water bottles and substituting cider in its place.Cunning huh!!By lunch ,the sun was shining ,not a cloud in the sky and we were in high spirits.Time to queue for the music.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>David Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05732661044977967344noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106007835645713315.post-12351689244767245602012-11-28T12:39:00.000-08:002013-09-22T13:07:11.027-07:00Waterfall reconstruction<h2>
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<span style="color: blue;"><u>Neglected Pond and Waterfall</u></span></h2>
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Over the winter the pond tends to get very neglected.The pump is switched off,the fish go into hibernation and so do we!Last summer we noticed the pool needed topping up weekly and we concluded that there was probably a leak in the liner for the waterfall and so we decided that the pond needed a bit of TLC!</div>
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The first job was to have a discussion with the illegal labour.He concurred with me that it was a good idea to completely remove the old water fall and start from scratch (Great minds think alike)<br />
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Removing rocks and stones from the waterfall liner.<br />
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Removing the liner.<br />
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Cutting and digging out new steps for the waterfall.The pond filter can be seen at the top of the waterfall.<br />
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I decided that it might be a good idea to cut down some of the trees shading the pond.When they were first planted they were described as "Dwarf conifers".Not so small now!They looked fine when first planted but now they are out of proportion to the pond and shed their leaves every year.Come June i have to wade in to the Stygian depths of the pond and clean the accumulated mud and silt out.Not my favourite job! <br />
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Now you see it.<br />
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More trees taken out above the waterfall.<br />
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Stumps dug out.Donkey work !<br />
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Unfortunately i got so engrossed in the building of the waterfall that i forgot to take photo's right the way through every stage.I like to document these projects but somehow you forget about it.The important thing is to get the job done!!</div>
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Because the liner became punctured, probably due to the burrowing activities of rats and moles i decided that i needed to build a layer of bricks for backing for the liner.Let the little critters try burrowing through that!.Once the foundation bricks had been laid i then rolled out the pvc liner on top and to the sides.The final stage was to silicone seal the sandstone paving slabs,risers steps and cheeks to one another and back fill the cheeks with bricks and finally rockery stone to disguise the construction.</div>
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Cheeks in position but not cut to size.</div>
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The foreman checking out the finished article.<br />
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What do you think of the terracotta vases.Very classical !The final touches were to construct a new rockery and clear overgrown marginal plants from the edge of the pond.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Gunnera</u><br /> Third year of growth on our Gunnera.V pleased with progress.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Petasites</u><br />I also planted a Petasites in a mini bog garden which i constructed just by the pond.These plants are very susceptible to dry conditions and attack by slugs and snails.I dug a pit about 15 inches deep, lined it with thick polythene ,perforated the liner for a little drainage ,backfilled the pit with well manured soil and then planted the 3 inch high Petasites.First year growth was up to 30 inch height and i hope by next year i will have a well established clump there.I am planning to construct another mini bog garden next year and plant them with Arum lilies!</td></tr>
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David Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05732661044977967344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5106007835645713315.post-61165818920229557982012-11-20T07:53:00.000-08:002012-11-20T12:09:11.200-08:00Amdega Conservatory Build .Ebay purchase<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was looking for a replacement for an old greenhouse which had reached the end of it's days and tracked this wooden conservatory down on ebay.I paid £500 for it thinking i hd a bargain.Little did I know how much extra expense and work it would take to dismantle</span> and erect it!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How confidently I started off detaching all the internal blinds.A piece of cake!! The vents unscrewed without much effort.The problems started when i attempted to take out the double glazed sheets of glass in the roof.They were held in place with wooden cedar capping bars ,pinned and silicone sealed into position.By the time i prised these off, most of them had been splintered and reduced to match wood.The glass had been puttied and siliconed onto the glazing bars and was never meant to be undone.It was set there like concrete.I tried warming them up with a blowtorch ,cutting them out with a skill knife and fin ally i desperation grinding out the putty with an angle grinder.Needless to say half the roof panes broke or cracked and the rest were in a sorry state by the time i had deglazed the building.</span></div>
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The next problem was how to detach the individual wooden frames that made up the structure of the building.They were held together with counter sunk galvanised wood screws which had been puttied over and effectively hidden from view.This took some time and although most of the frames detached, unscathed the central ridge sustained considerable damage when it crashed to the ground..I decided that i wasn't going to deglaze the side panels and therefore dismantled them with the glass in situ.I had to cut through the brass hinges holding the large top hung side vents with an angle grinder (What a brute).At this stage i was regretting buying the conservatory and the air was turning blue with muttered curses and thoughts of impending doom.At this stage there was no turning back.<br />
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Once the frames were dismantled, i chopped out all the bricks on the dwarf wall and cleaned the mortar off.Finally i saved all the quarry tiles which came up very easily as the mortar bed they were cemented too was rubbish.At last,an easy job.I suppose i spent about 5 days dismantling and transporting the buildingat the start of one December just as the weather was on the change.Snow was falling on the last load home.I decided to call it a day until the spring.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About March the following year ,with the weather improving,i decided to come out of hibernation and make a start on the nextstep of the project.I became DEMOLITION MAN.No need to take any care.Just smash and break.Lord, it was good.I suppose i reduced the frame to matchwood in a day and it took me another day to save the wood and clear the site.The wood all got sawn up and used in the wood burner the next winter.No waste.Who says we aren't green in England .</span></div>
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Looks better already.<br />
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At last came the stage when i could start building again.Although the old green house stood on a concrete pad it didn't follow the same footprint as the Conservatory so to be on the safe side I broke up the concrete where the new foundations would go.If there was any settlement in the foundations it would be even over the whole area. I managed to crucify a Kango breaker and acquired a severe case of "White Finger vibration " for my troubles</div>
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Rubble infill all smashed up and compacted down.More donkey work .Blue bells are up so it must be May. I'm not the fastest of workers!!<br />
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Concreting time.Note the old vine still in the old greenhouse area.I originally had this crazy idea of keeping it and growing it inside the new conservatory.Needless to say i changed my mind .<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><u>Building the Dwarf Walls</u></span></h2>
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At last I started the brick work.I had been quite meticulous measuring the dimensions of the Conservatory base when i dismantled it,so after marking out i started buiding.Luckily the weather was good and i took my time.I was quite pleased with the finished result but i still managed to leave smears of cement on the face work of some of the bricks.Never mind ,i did my best!</div>
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Roses are out now so it must be June.Get a move on Phillips !!<br />
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Well i made a reasonable job of the brick work as the wooden frame fitted a treat.The ridge got mended with massive screws and a good dose of glue and within a few days the frame was essentially finished.At his stage i took a good look at the roof glass and decided that we needed new glass for the top.A lot of the double glazed units which were good had moisture inside them so i scrapped the lot.I made hardboard templates for the glass firm and they had them made up to size.</div>
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Now began one of the longest jobs.I had to sand down all the woodwork,router out all the old putty and mastic and then apply four coats of paint.Very boring and time consuming and having to dodge the showers.All done and dusted by the time we took our holiday in Brittany that august.I took delivery of the glass just before we left<br />
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I was not looking forward to the glazing of the roof but this was surprisingly quick.I engaged a local woodworking firm to make up some new wooden capping strips for the glazing (much cheaper than buying them from Amdega.I was quoted over £600 from them and Empsons only charged me £150 !).Technology and building methods had movd on since the building was first constructed and this time i used double sided mastic tape to bed the glass on.Stuck like s..t to a blanket.I then filled it with silicone sealer and finally pinned the capping strips over the glass and glazing bars.Result,not a single breakage.What a relief!At last a weatherproof building with no leaks.<br />
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With the glazing finished i could now concentrate on the interior.I laid heavy duty polythene (visqueen), screeded over the top of it and then after a few days i tiled .A few of the quarry tiles had broken so i decided to buy a few feature tiles for the middle.Instead of using a cement screed I chose tile adhesive which made a much better job and should ensure that the tiles wont lift.</div>
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October,now and i was on the final leg.I applied a cement screed to the cement block back wall and gave it a couple of coats of paint.Installed two double electric plug points ,the electric fan and light unit and wired it all to a new circuit in the sub distributor box in the garage and hung the roof and side blinds.The last two purchases,again from Ebay were a cane three piece suite and a calor gas heater .</div>
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And here we are toasting our new Garden room<br />
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Next spring we decided that we were sick of treading in mud from the garden into the new room so paved a path from the garage .I dug out foundations , a layer of rubble and then sharp sand and finally cemented in sandstone paving (Cheaper than reconstructed stone paving now).It's taken a long time to complete the project but it's all been worth while.Keeps me out of mischief i suppose!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Over the last few years we have despaired at our inability to grow water lilies in our garden pond here in Walcot, largely due to the ravenous feeding habits of our large koi. We finally decided to bite the bullet and build a raised pond in a little used corner of the garden and just keep lilies and marginal plants in there. The pond is now finished but will have to wait till next year before we stock it but i thought you might like to see a few photos during construction.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>I started this project at the end of the summer ,so of course the ground was rock hard and covered with a layer of gravel and carpet,which had been used as a weed depressant (Fat load of good as weeds can germinate in gravel too!!)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Digging Out</span><br />
Guess what,it was hard graft, digging out to about 15 inches ,filling it with rubble and then pounding the rubble with a sledge hammer to compact it and provide a good base for the concrete infill.One plus point was that i managed to get rid of unsightly brick and rubbish piles from the rest of the garden.I also managed to loose 3 lbs in weight that day too! What are members of the "chain gangs" bitching about!<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Concrete Foundations and Cement Block Laying</span><br />
I forgot to take photos of levelling the concrete foundation with a spirit level and pegs but take that as read..I poured about 5 inches of concrete into the foundations (I'm not aiming to build The Empire State on this plot) ,gave it couple of days to dry and then started on my cement block work.These blocks are incredibly heavy but you make reasonably fast progress as each one is the equivalent of 6 bricks.This makes a difference as i am very ,very,slow! You may have heard about those thousand bricks a day tradesman.I wouldn't even lay 50 a day !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Yes ,believe it or not ,it is level.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Outer Casing of Bricks</span><br />
Finally started on the brick work.Heather is aghast at the huge size of the pond and I must admit it's turning out to be a bigger and more expensive project than I accounted for but too late to turn back now.Every three layers I tied the cement blocks and the brick work together with galvanised metal butterfly ties ,every three courses of bricks.Got bitten to death by gad flies,horse flies,hornets,mosquitoes and every miserable insect that God decreed should attack me in this corner of England.What did "Jobe" have to bitch about.It was like the 12 plagues of Egypt writ large in North Lincolnshire.<br />
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.Making Progress<br />
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This is the final height,about 2ft 4 inches.At this stage I did wonder about changing the use to a play pen for the youngest grand child but decided that health and safety constraints , concerns from outraged parents and doting grandmother outweighed this thought. (Any time now,will have to move that standard rose in the middle of the pool )<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Lining Out</span><br />
Finally finished the block and brick work.I have removed the rose,levelled the floor of the pool and lined it with old rubber carpet underlay kindly donated by Heather's daughter.Nearly made a mistake with the size for the PVC liner (Base by sides plus top etc etc) but finally the pool is filling.It wasn't possible to just leave it to fill up as i had to pull the creases out and fold in the corners of the liner as best i could but at the end of the day ,quite neat and no leaks!!<br />
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<span style="color: lime;">Coping Stone Laying</span></div>
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The capping stones were a problem as the original sandstone blocks that I had ordered just looked too insubstantial for the pond.After some searching we found some riven paving blocks which although I had to cut with a large angle grinder looked great when they were cemented in place.I also incorporated some more of those butterfly ties just under the capping stones reaching just over the water's edge so that I can attach planting baskets in the spring.All that's left to do is pave around the side of the pond . I'm in no hurry!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Bricks,cement,cement blocks £448</b></span></div>
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I thought you might be interested in progress of the lily pond over the summer.I planted about a dozen small lilies between may and september.I got a great deal only a couple of days ago when i purchased four for £15! For added interest i placed terracotta planters filled with geraniums at each corner.I know i have planted far too many lilies considering the size of the pond but i eventually hope to cover the entire surface with leaves and flowers.I couldn't resist buying four small goldfish for the pond and somehow i must have imported fish eggs along with the plants and now have an additional 25 fry of various colours swimming in the pond as well !<br />
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