Adventurous day :)

Today we went to Stanford to take pictures of a 4 year working progress of a holiday house in Stanford. What a stunning design my boss did, the plot is beautiful, surrounded by mountainous views as well as a river on your back step.... Beautifully done and not a single cent was spared when it came to the finishings quality and costs.

We stopped along the way to enjoy the scenery at a farmstall, couldn't have been better weather either!
After visiting the house we then stopped for toasties, really the opposite to a blue Monday!

The view from one of the 2 main bedrooms into the garden!

The view from the road of the house as you approach

How the hand rail connects to the slab

Beautiful teak soffits

Balouw timber rafters sticking out the building, the labourer is busy filling in the flashing

A bridge between the 2 sections upstairs over looks 4 single paned windows with a gorgeous view 

valley gutter

Hellooo

The past week I have been redoing the window schedule for Plasir du Jardin, it has changed a few times due to the clients wants. The client wants large single pane windows in the section we are adding onto the heritage building. This is not really aceptable as we need to match the heritage area style as well as the current windows it posseses. We are putting shutters that will extend from the bottom of the window to the half way line. The windows are quite high but so that we could get that open feel that the client wanted in order to show case the furiture being showcased inside, the total height to the underside of the lintel is 2380mm.

All the windows will be custom made from aluminium so the measurements are very important. The building is going to be at window cill height in about 3 weeks or so so its very important that we get the ball rolling quickly on this one.

Here is the window schedule:

I have also just started working on a house in Oranjezicht, a vstunning house which Noel has done work on previously. I am busy on the council drawings for the house.

Lucie and I also put together a template for working in colour for council drawings so that we dont have to spend hours colouring in plans for council, we can just print in colour and waaalaaa :)
Heres the little temples ;P

Lucie and I have also been teaching ourselves how to work with the 3D side of Micro GDS, lu has spent more time on it than me but we have worked on projects togther which has been fun.

The "Big Hole"

There has been great procress at Plasur du Jardin the past week or so. We have visitied the site 3 times the past 2 weeks and the basement is finally closed.

Lucie and I were there when Bob-crete were putting the precast concrete slabs on the retaining walls and also watched them putting the precast concrete stairs in position in one site visit! the whole procedure is rather quick.

The compactor

The labourers busy compacting the fill behind the retaining wall with a  compacter... one slip and there is a 4m fall!!! plus that little machine is quite something to hold onto.

The stairs rests on a steel I beam, the landing of the stair rests inside the I beam.

The slabs from Bon crete being placed on the retaining walls of the basement

The stairs going in!

This product mixed with mortar creates a sealant which is placed between the slab and retaining wall to prevent the rain from getting in....

Its taken years for the plan to be approved, months to get the basement done and not even a day to close it up quite crazy actually.