November 12, 2005

Loads of work

On site for before eight, another wonderfully pissy day, up to our neck in shite!
Damien and Iano were with me and they wheeled their wheel barrows and filled the first room. Gerry arrived about 8.30 with some foddder and I contiued with the lads outside to get the percolation area marked out. We then tried to fit in the 280 sq meters, I can see where Sean was getting frustrated!!!
Eventually I managed to fit it, with almost an acre of a site how it was hard is hard to explain but with the biggest part to the front of the house it was a proper pain!!

The I had to get my mate John Grady to get 3" land drainage pipe for the percolation area.

About 11am and 3 hours after the screed arrived I started to screed. Damo and Iano had 1/2 the back room done which for lads who never did screeding they did very well.

Dad was late again and arrived by 11.30, at this stage we had the back room almost completed and Gerry had filled the sitting room, Ian & John were starting the sitting room and progress was rapid.

Dad and John continued with the sitting room and myself and damien pulled the backroom and back section of the hall.
We had a cuppa and decided to fire up as much as we could upstairs before it dried. The stairs was pulled out then and we started to wheel in the screed. In that time the pile had hardened so fair play to Sean he got the digger and moved it about the loosen it.
Then it was all hands on deck and we fired more screed upstairs so that Ian and Damien could continue to pull the rooms.

In the mess we managed to bury a platic float in the hall floor, a momento!

Sean, myself and Dad then managed to pull the hall floor and marry in the closet, sitting room, kitchen, bathroom and sitting room.
All done downstairs, great relief, the decision was made to push to get upstairs done, so we got 5 buckets and 2 upstairs, one on the ladder and 3 outside. The push was amazing, and within an hour we had too much upstairs!! FOur of us pulled a bedroom, hotpress and landing in 30 minutes and then back downstairs to pull up the screed guides and fill it in.
Antoher 10 buckts and we had all screeds up and all floors floated. So that was it!!

An amazing days work which has pulled the who house so much.

I had rang Brian Feeney my spark to fo the 2nd fit as u need cert to get your ESB connected. Will be this day week before he can come.

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