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Meanwhile up in Perth at the Island Leisure factory work commences on our new Rainster log cabin. The basic framework is put in place with all the doors and windows - notice that on this new model we have included a porch for all your coats and wellies, which will be much more practical than a shoe box in the lounge! The cabin will also have the same fantastic accessible facilities as our popular Hipley cabin with full wet room shower and grab rails, also great for hosing down the muddy children after an adventurous day out in the Peak Di...
One of the very few negative comments that past visitors have made about Hoe Grange is the poor state of the drive up to the farm yard. Particularly those with converted wheelchair accessible cars. Well the time has come to do something about it. With the arrival of the first load of Tarmac the anticipation was tremendous, would we really have a drive that would not shake you to to pieces. As the morning progressed we could begin to imagine what the final outcome would be like. More Tarmac And then by late lunch time (and 160 tonnes of Ta...
Our enourmous mole is at work yet again and digging continues in various places around the farm! David has been digging the trench for the new electric cables running up from the tradtional stone stables across the stack yard to the finished foundations ready for when the new Rainster log cabin arrives at Hoe Grange. We currently have 3 diggers of vairous sizes on site and David is becoming a dab hand at manoevering piles of earth and stone. Two out of the three ground source heating trenches have been completed. Whislt we have gen...
This week it looks as though a large mole has been at work in the farm field next to the cabins, with mountains of dark earth piled high. But no - there is no mole, just David digging three large 100m long trenches for the ground source heating system for our cosy new log cabins. The ground source heating works a bit like a reverse fridge and uses a pump to circulate the natural heat absorbed from the ground through the ground loop pipes, filled with a mixture of water and anti freeze, which are buried beneath the surface. In the UK the...
More concrete! Did you know that concrete is used more than any other man-made material in the world? We certainly seem to be using our fair share this week for the construction of our new self catering log cabin! Another glorious Spring day here in Derbyshire which is fabulous for our building project, not that you need dry weather for concrete to set; bizarrely it drys due to a chemical reaction from within, no matter if it's raining or not. Felicity Base nearly finished...







