Home straight

Thank you MOA TOA and mdw for waking The Architect from his blog hibernation.


It's now over a month since the last entry. This is due to a severe lack of builder. Things have been heating up this last week - the electrical wiring is practically finished, the gas board have been digging in the road and finally, at long last the steel stair, railings and gates have arrived from deepest darkest Auvergne.
The stair is simple and elegant and will be finished with wooden treads at a later date. The railings have been put together with precision, needing only 16mm of adjustment at one extremity to allow for the neighbours stone column.


The gates however are still a problem. The weight of a single panel was too much for the bolts fixing the intermediate column to the concrete threshold. On swinging the gate fully open the concrete foundation started to crack. The solution consists of adding a roller to the end of each of the gates to take the weight off of the column. This will require a level quarter circle rolling track set into the paving of the front courtyard.


The light grey finish is the protective metallic primer applied in the factory. The fence now needs painting. This will be a job for The Client.

The list of works still left to do is long but there is a ray of hope that The Client will soon be in her house
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