BUILDING A SOLAR HOUSE IN FRANCE - Plastering with new machine - masons back on site.

On Tuesday 8th April M. Marcelin Mazieres, the carpenter, came to fix the leaks in the roof. Michel, Mr Desvergnes electrician, was working to keep just a few steps ahead of the plasterer, Mr Laurent Maziere, and I was trying to keep ahead of them both with partitions.

A record number of white vans (later to be exceeded the next week)

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Benoit moved down to put plastic angles on all the openings in the sous sol, after having done upstairs.

Temporary landings I had made had to be partly dismantled to thread electrical conduit under them.

I asked the plasterer to put plasterboard on the vertical walls in the mezzanine. Albert, M Maziere's other assistant, had taped all the plasterboard joints and filled the screw holes.

Downstairs the wall of the shower was done by the plasterer in briques.

Mr Maziere showed me a clever trick for holding a door and frame vertical, using V's of battens held together by rubber bands (sections of car tube). The door was closed to keep it square while it was built in. Mr Maziere found himself inside the room after bricking it in, and I could not find the key to open it to release him. The outside door was locked as well and the key could not be found. A way was eventually found to pick the lock.

Comment:

Even with 20 boxes of semi-rigid panels of hemp fibre insulation already stuffed behind the ceilings, there are still 16 boxes left which are always in the way. The next time I build a house the garage will come first to store stuff.

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