danny l
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When i bought this house 4 years ago after my divorce, it was a walk back to the 70s. The back garden was a complete bush of weeds and treestumps. Not a place to spend your time in the summer. There was no fence or something else between mine and the neighbours garden, in pact the path to the end of the garden was in the middle. Half mine, half theirs. 6 Days before i turned 50 i started digging the foundation, and poured concrete, that was saturday.
Day 2. Monday i bolted steel colums on the concrete and put wooden beams on top. Ater that I had to take away the old iron roof construction. Then placing the crossbeams to the wall. Not bad for 1 person in a day
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Day 3. I screwed scaffolding boards/plancks on top
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Day 4. I wanted a lightning with fibreglass wires to create a starry sky. This means drilling 300 holes of 2mm and putting the wires in and cut them flush with the wood. Just 1 more cable for the lamp over the dining table and ready for closing. After that i put protective foil on the roof and slats for the rooftiles
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Day 5. I had to do retiling the existing roof as well. Some beams were broken and the nails of the tile slats where rusted away. This was for later. for now put some cover on top to make it raintight and clean up.
Day 6 . My birthday. More clean up and decoration, and in the evening partytime.
During the following years improvements where made. The existing roof was retiled with foil underneath, An outdoor kitchen made of 2 old kitchens i got. The lounche was made of left over pieces of wood from the porch and some pallets. Gutter installed .
Now it looks like this. And all of this at a total cost of only €250,-, and a lot of sweat.
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The rest of the gardenwork. Taking the concrete path out, digging holes for poles and put a concrete fence in. And more digging and moving ground, there was 40cm difference from front to back. Planing it out, new path and sun terrace, grass and so on. the end result:
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Except the retiling of the roof and 2 plates for the fence, All the work was done by me alone. The boards of that fence are 40Kg a piece, there are 68 of them. With a jig and a winch i managed 40 on 1 day.
Day 2. Monday i bolted steel colums on the concrete and put wooden beams on top. Ater that I had to take away the old iron roof construction. Then placing the crossbeams to the wall. Not bad for 1 person in a day
View attachment 1
Day 3. I screwed scaffolding boards/plancks on top
View attachment 2
Day 4. I wanted a lightning with fibreglass wires to create a starry sky. This means drilling 300 holes of 2mm and putting the wires in and cut them flush with the wood. Just 1 more cable for the lamp over the dining table and ready for closing. After that i put protective foil on the roof and slats for the rooftiles
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Day 5. I had to do retiling the existing roof as well. Some beams were broken and the nails of the tile slats where rusted away. This was for later. for now put some cover on top to make it raintight and clean up.
Day 6 . My birthday. More clean up and decoration, and in the evening partytime.
During the following years improvements where made. The existing roof was retiled with foil underneath, An outdoor kitchen made of 2 old kitchens i got. The lounche was made of left over pieces of wood from the porch and some pallets. Gutter installed .
Now it looks like this. And all of this at a total cost of only €250,-, and a lot of sweat.
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The rest of the gardenwork. Taking the concrete path out, digging holes for poles and put a concrete fence in. And more digging and moving ground, there was 40cm difference from front to back. Planing it out, new path and sun terrace, grass and so on. the end result:
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Except the retiling of the roof and 2 plates for the fence, All the work was done by me alone. The boards of that fence are 40Kg a piece, there are 68 of them. With a jig and a winch i managed 40 on 1 day.
