April 1
Linus
covers our new superstructure with wallboard/drywall/gypsum board/plasterboard
(my God! Can
you decide on ONE English word for gipsskiva or not?!?!?!)
I love the inviting feeling
in a view like this! And in a couple of days I can join this adventure when
going on a three week leave from work!
Agneta paints what will
be the ceiling in our new entry hall.
March 31
Looki
looki! The new garage door mounted, less motor!
This is the grey color we'll have on all doors
on the front. Now please hurry up with the motor and things, we want to play
with the remote control!
A
much better use of this corner. A new superstructure over the entry and stairs
from the bottom floor
gives us a big shelf for stowaway things that can't be elsewhere...like...many
things. :)
March 30
Looks
like a small entry room from this angle but it makes a huge difference for the
whole house!
I guess this will feel like the biggest change of all when all is done!
I'm
not certain, but I think that to cement the electric feed into the house was
already unlawful in 1969!?
A new feed line is already prepared and this will be cut off in a day or two.
March 27
Linus
is making concrete in the "tombola" and making the new entry floor,
burying the water heating.
You still see the old front door (on right hinges) that soon will be changed
to our new door (on lefties).
March 24
Wind
eyes finally shut!
When
coming home from the short Easter holiday I was glad to see the new windows
mounted in the
garage. Did you know that the English word "window" is coming from
the Danish word "vindue" which
means "wind eye" and that was the place in the viking longhouse that
conveyed the smoke
out from the house?
March 21
Merry
Christmas!
...eh...I mean Happy Easter?
Axel
Fighting the Elements! Last week we really thought that winter was over (we
always do)
- when the great snow hit us again! It won't hurt the garage rebuild, more than
chilling the
carpenters of course. But they are off for the Easter holiday anyway.
March 20
Car
port is now at least delivered.
The wall between the
entry and garage is now up. And the water pit is coming along.
March 19
The
plumber did the water tubing for the floor heating today.
March 17
Does it really have to snow right now?
Not
a good start of the Monday - snow and ice cold! The sun was warming yesterday...
Stig-Arne, Agneta, Linus
and I were experiencing the Point of No Return, front door is going down.
Well, it's relocated to the new doors' place in waiting for the arrival of the
new doors.
And then the wall was
gone. WOW! How about this then då? It became even better than we imagined!
March 16
I
cut the flanges of the u-iron that otherwise would stick out.
The
110 bricks that were removed from the patio at the front door will now be used
as a decoration back
here close to the wall where they will cover the draining mat.
March 15
Lars-Inge
and Ann-Sofie visited us today just to see that we were working. Agneta painted
all day.
Both white and blue.
March 14
Will
the wall fall down or do father and son know what they're doing?
Stig-Arne
working through the wall.
Two
u-irons inserted one by one from each direction, bolted together when meeting
in the middle.
Yes,
this looks good!
Keep
it clean!
We
want it as
simple as possible. But we know that we have to find a way to cover the iron
which
now is sticking out from the wall with an inch. Agneta had a really good idea
which you'll find out.
The
garage to the left, entry to the right. No, we will not have a door to the garage
directly from the entry
as we first thought. It would've been too expensive with all doors and stuff
because the law says you
then need a kind of airlock room with two doors! It also would have taken too
much of the newly won
space. We will use the outside doors as we have always done.
Just
a nice photo I think.
Agneta
has painted the wall...
...and
she was unstoppable...
...she
went around the whole house!
March 13
Agneta and Linus discussing the awaiting
issues while we can see that the east wall is soon finished.
And part of the ceiling is covered since the electrician Dick has been here
and placed all the cables
for our 10 fluorescent lamps and also for all the sockets for the work bench.
March 9
Today
Agneta and Axel began to put on primer on what's going to be the outside panels.
Meanwhile I was stationed
in our entry to unscrew all things and make place for The Big Change...
March 8
International
Women's Day and
Spring Celebration
At
last we had time to level the macadam on the back side.
Dressed for
the occasion.
It's so great
to have all of this fixed, the draining and all. We're so happy we did it!
And something
is happening here as well, the new entry room is coming along...
March 5
Now she's crazy...!
Agneta!? Agneta!? Where's my wife?
AGNETA!!!? This morning I finally found her in the backyard
sawing bushes! What the...
...are you doing back here Agneta?
Aha...she had a deal with a flower shop to deliver - what we in Sweden call
Vridpil - in exchange for
some nice roses! The Vridpil had grown too big back here. The flower shops like
to cut some pieces
from things like this into their flower bouquet arrangements. I had no idea.
And now we all know.
March 4
Stig-Arne
mounted the insulation on the same day we had a biting frost in the morning.
Sun made the
rest of the day warmer. At least in direct sun. Wonderful.
March 2
- What's so funny Agneta?
We took good use of our 4th scrap
container when going down to our basement and dug out our old
sauna completely. Agneta has future plans also for that room. And for the first
time she asked for the
camera to take a picture. Wonder why?
February 29
Great! Now we can visualize how it will be! The doors and the
remote controlled garage port will be in the
same grey color. Garage port will be only 237 cm / 93" wide. Doesn't need
to be wider since we'll have
our 40 cm deep shelf on the right wall anyway. It's just a question of speed.
I remember Sammy Miller
when he got the question on what it was like driving his rocket funny car "Vanishing
Point" from
a stand still to speeds over 480 kmh / 300 mph in less than 4 seconds...? He
answered:
-It's like aiming for a garage port in 200 kmh (125 mph).
The new entry "hall"
will be something like this. What an improvement for the whole house!
Seen from the inside. It will of course be better than the Photoshopped
picture to the right.
Our main electricity line just hangaround for a little while more.
On the backside you could hear her
curse everyone and everything for not making functional products, or selling
complete. And she's right.
My Dear Agneta! I stayed home from work in the morning to give an extra
hand to up the 2 m / 6.5 feet
wide Platon mats which will give us a better
drainage than before. Hopefully!?
Finally done, only the plastic trim strip on top is missing here but
Agneta sent to me to back to
my work again. "-I'll fix this".
And she did.
February 27
Agneta is much more than a wife. Actually she's a project manager of
everything in our life! She's in
control of everything. I feel ashamed of being at work when knowing she is working
like "two men" on
our home. Here she has found out that the diggers didn't dig deep enough so
she just started to dig
by hand for hours. No, sorry she's not for hire. She's mine!
Agneta has painted all the walls with some good stuff.
"Damned men inventing and selling this total "#¤%&/
crap announced two-way adhesive film,
my ass! I'm so totally bad...go away Anders, go to work...NOW! GET OUT!"
Yes dear...kiss?
SHUTTHE****UPANDGO! AND DON'T TAKE PHOTOS GODDAMMIT!!! Oh I
love her so much! =)
This is the extra length we get on the new garage. We have to be happy
for the little advance even if we
wanted it much longer. At least it'll give that extra space so I can take home
the SS for small works.
Front entry door (copper) will be flipped 90 degree towards the street, making
room for a larger
entry hall, another nice feature from this project.
February 26
Coming home again, seeing the result of what Agneta and Stig-Arne had been working
on all day in
pouring rain and chilly heavy winds - the concrete extension of the garage floor.
I got humble.
February
25
Axel shielded his eyes when destroying parts of the wall with a hammer. Stig-Arne
had destroyed most
of it and our family carried it all to the (3rd) scrap container. Behind that
wall, in this little room, we had
the oil tank before we invested in Geothermal Power heating in 1999, one year
after moving in.
BTW, that investment reached break even already in 2004 because of the increasing
oil cost. The best
investment we ever did, which also made us to invest in floor heating all over.
In the garage we will take
use of a heat pump. We are very modern, aren't we!?
February
23
Cleaned out by Agneta, Axel and me. We want Stig-Arne to feel welcomed to the
project every morning!
February 22
New drain piping which will work compared to the originals... Note those black
"leaf-filters" on top.
The professionals went home after all problems were fixed.
February
21
Coming home for the work, I needed to duck rightaway! Sorry, sorry, sorry for
the WAR, neighbors!
Noisy machines, trucks and everything everywhere and blocking the street!
Funny sticker! I think it's globally understood...
Old drain pipe was stuffed! Stuffed thanks to that one idiot carpenter we hired
for doing our bathroom,
which we would've thrown out if it wasn't for the fact that he never returned
(he just disappeard in the
middle of everything so we had to finish everything ourselves). We found big
chunks of cement which
he had drained in this pipe...
No water comes the right way. No water at all... Damnded is that Carpenter De
Idiot!!! Well, these guys
fixed it with a dig-out filled with macadam. But still...#$£@€{\{"¤%/(=!
Is killing people still forbidden?
February
20
Excavator contractors, Agneta, Carpenter De Excellence Stig-Arne (and me) in
discussions of what to
do on the front. "Old" asphalt has to go of course, new cement here
and there, and this and that.
Wow! Just back away, these guys started without any delay and they didn't take
a break before all was
done! And then..they went home! Axel missed these machines! Phew...
Agneta flushing one of the drain pipes to get rid of blocking rotten leafs.
February
19
The rotten reason why we had to build the new garage.
Yeech! We had to throw it in the scrap container ourselves, of course...
- No! It's not ours! No no no, you can't drive it!
- Why?!
- Because!
Too odd to throw away! Someone must be needing this special radiator!? Come
and get it for free!
February
18
Everyday when coming home from work give a surprise!
February 13
What a day for a new roof!
The
carpenters didn't complain about the weather today. And nothing else either.
A new garage roof is
born and a happy sun makes it even better. Cold? Yes, but sunny!
This new project will give the home a much larger entry room and the new garage
will be more roomy
beginning with a taller ceiling.
February 12
Now it's for real!
When I came home a big Scania was backed up into the garage! Old murky garage
roof was gone and
an excavator was spinning around inside the former garage. Wow, now the show
has really started!
Backside. While at it (rebuilding
the garage) we wanted to reach the bottom of the house and the garage
so we can make a better drain. In 1969 that was not so important, they just
throw in some sand to the
walls and hurried home to see the moon landing on their black-and-white TV's.
We've had rain water
coming into the house in a couple of places!
It's one guy in the excavator
and one guy directing, not really seen here because of the very popular
reflex working gear. Damn, that Axel is missing all of this exciting action!
He's with Agneta at the
country cottage and just ordered me by the phone to go out and both film it
and take picture of it! =)
What? A pipe here? Hm... It must be going towards the floor drain in the front?
Armstrong was jumping
on the moon...so who the hell was interested in doing a blueprint of all the
drain piping?
6 feet under.
Towards West. When they
were gone it was a very silent, melancholy and empty feeling. But
spiritual as well, we have waited many many years to do this!
Towards the East.
February 8 - 2008
Bye bye 1969
This is the last we'll see of those old windows and this ceiling in our garage
at home. The carpenters
have already begun to take it all down to make place for our new design. Our
house was built in the
moon landing year of 1969 and it's about time to freshen up this garage as we
already
did the rest of the house.
At last - time for change!
Before... Ours to the left.
The unused back corner which we wanted to extend the garage area on. Neigbours
said OK, City of
Gothenburg said "No way". Have a nice day.
So this is what we wanted to do with the garage - to expand it to the length
of our house. A perfect plan and our nice neighbors
said OK too. Then the City of Gothenburg said "No way" because there
is a restrictive law for our area which allows a maximum
of 65 % build on the land area, since some people in the wild past built too
much on their areas, out on to the sidewalk etc.
But we said this corner in the back is not used anyway and the neigbors thinks
it's just fine. "No way". They didn't even care to
come and look! Years of making sketches and begging resulted in a small expansion
on the front. And we still need to throw
in the money and renovate the rain water leaking and murky old garage. Red marks
origin design.
Always on the outside. Old garage was as deep as the Impala SS was long. With
the hitch the door
couldn't be closed. Our guess is that garages was built for the Saab V4 in 1969?