maandag 28 december 2015

Frozen in the middle of nowhere




The ancient graves (burial moulds)  in our backyard eventually found a new and much more exciting purpose :-)




zaterdag 26 december 2015

Architect causes disaster

During the design process (spring 2013) Pieter Brink from B+O architecten in Meppel hands over our project to his colleague Johan Nieuwenhuis to do research and further excecution.

Unfortunately Johan Nieuwenhuis is very insecure and unexperienced. After a short while Johan fails to complete even the simplest requests and makes too many mistakes.

We suggest - to take him off the case or find another consulting architecht for our house and it is decided that Pieter Brink should take lead again.

Unfortunately - we asked Johan Nieuwenhuis to do research for a suitable hardened sauna window - a fatal mistake - only to be discovered more than a year later when the sauna windows all start to burst.

At that point Johan has been expelled from the project and lateron fired by Pieter Brink.

Unfortunately we met more incompatible  workers with a lack of professional qualities by B+O in Meppel.

vrijdag 18 december 2015

Bursting sauna window



Every contemporary sauna has a window nowadays! 

EXAMPLES:


Reference: Ringkøbing Svømmehal 








We spend time and effort explaining this thoroughly and in details to the architect while designing our house.



Now we have a burst in the window and a big problem!-(


The drawing shows extra isolation on the walls but certainly not towards the windows!!

woensdag 9 december 2015

Leaking Concrete Floor


Day of disaster when everything is set-out wrong! 
The styrofoam is in direct contact with the ground. No sealing-foil or epdm on the outside of the foundation!
Tubes
Day of gray
No foil or plastic layer inbetween 
Is this strip the only protection against water?
What went wrong?