{"id":18254,"date":"2021-11-17T21:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18254"},"modified":"2021-11-17T21:53:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:53:52","slug":"new-tool-store-day2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/new-tool-store-day2\/","title":{"rendered":"New tool store – day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously, I’ve had the build manual for the new store ever since the kit was delivered back at the beginning of July but although I’ve scanned through it a few times, I haven’t spent the time that I should have examining it in detail. So before I got cracking on starting to put the kit together, I had to carefully read through the first few pages and take notes on which components I needed to find and lay out ready for assembly.<\/p>\n

There are lots of hand-drawn images showing how the various bits go together but after getting the bits in question in front of me and comparing them to the drawings, many of the illustrations seemed to show them coming together incorrectly with one of the parts somehow being rotated through 90\u00b0. However, once I realised that and decided that I’d just use my common sense, I got going and work proceeded OK if not very quickly.<\/p>\n

I got the base rails assembled and in place before I had to stop. The reason was that the manufacturer of the building assumed that it would be assembled onto a flat wooden floor whereas mine will be attached directly to concrete. To allow for this they have supplied four corner brackets with bolts to screw into plugs in the concrete whereas I want to fix it much more securely using the 5 screw holes per side that the wood screws usually use.<\/p>\n

But firstly the wood screws are too tiddly and short and secondly they haven’t supplied any suitable concrete fixing screws or plugs, so I had to down tools as the afternoon drew on to source some myself. Here’s where I’d got to at that time. First two shots taken from the front corners showing the footprint of the building. The section in the middle of the front edge is where the sliding doors will be placed.<\/p>\n

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And now two more shots taken from the rear corners.<\/p>\n

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I got what I needed at Brico March\u00e9 in Le Bugue but it’s a bit annoying because when I do jobs like this, I keep buying more of what I’ve already got in storage but which is now inaccessible. But never mind, I guess that it’ll all be used in the fullness of time when I start doing jobs in the new house and garden.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, a follow-up on this morning’s conversation with Enedis. While I was out I missed another call from Enedis and when I called back we were at last talking about reserving a date for the connection. The earliest that they can manage is the afternoon of 25th November and yes, wouldn’t you just know it, that’s the only day and time that I absolutely can’t be around because that’s when my annual check-up at P\u00e9rigueux hospital is scheduled for.<\/p>\n

They asked if I could leave my ‘coffre de chantier’ in a safe place where they could find it to make the connection and I said that that wouldn’t be necessary as it’s been ready, installed mounted on two metal legs and waiting for over two months. Enedis was quite shocked – should I be surprised? Anyway, the connection will go ahead on that day without my being there because what could I do anyway? They’ll do what’s necessary to test the installation afterwards and it’ll be nice to hopefully come home to a working system of my own that I can at last plug into.<\/p>\n

But funny, don’t you think, that I was told some time ago (by SDE24 actually) that my connection was scheduled for 2021 Week 47 and by my calculation Thursday 25th November is slap-bang in that week. Coincidence? Hmmmm… what do you think \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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