Happy Crépi ending

As expected, the ‘Crépi team’ were back on site this morning all set to finish the job off. Yesterday I noticed a small area at the bottom of the bedroom end wall where I thought they could have taken the level of the Crépi a bit lower and before they’d started I asked if they could add a little bit more by hand. Later on I noticed one of them doing just that and I found later when I put my drone up that he’d not only done what I asked but also a little bit more, so kudos to the team!

It didn’t take them long to get a coat of Crépi on and after that, like yesterday, it was all about getting the right finish. The weather started off dullish but chilly but went downhill from there and at times there were periods of quite heavy rain. Under the circumstances I think they did very well to produce such a fine quality job yet again.

I had to go out early on in the afternoon and by the time I returned at about 5.00 pm they’d cleared up and left. I took some shots but it was in the pouring rain, so not the best conditions in which to see the finished job for the first time.

To finish off with, here’s a close-up shot of the edge of the wall near the front door that shows the texture of the Crépi and also how clean and sharp this and all of the other edges on the building look.

They’d left a couple of unused sacks on the step of the living room front doors and of course they were soaking wet. I don’t know whether they contain a plastic sack inside the paper one. I hope they do, but in any case I moved them into the porch where the rain couldn’t reach them.

There’s an awful lot of mess left on the ground in front of the house which will all walk inside if it stays this wet, so it’ll have to be cleared away as best as possible. Quite a lot of sand has been left over after the ‘screed guys’ finished yesterday so I think I’ll see if I can put that into a ‘big-bag’ over the week-end rather than just let it be lost in the earth.

There’s a big-bag of crushed stone ‘gravillons’ left over as well and if I can get the builder to leave that too, it and the sand will go a long way towards being what will be needed for a new concrete base when I can get around to moving my tool store. It seems silly to waste them as it’ll only mean that I have to bring some more in and as I know from the last time, full big-bags weigh quite a bit when being towed in my trailer 😉