The Shed

For the last year our home has been a building site.

This is the outbuilding we ended up with.

The transformation has been amazing. All of the old sheds have been demolished. Replaced by a single building containing; stables, feed room, tack room, garages, a workshop and storage. These photos are a reminder of the process.

May 2023

October 2024

We started moving everything into temporary storage in June 2023.

The works started in October 2023.

November 2023

December 2023

Moving into 2024 with more rainfall than we have seen in any previous winter since we've lived here.

Tiger's paw prints

February 2024

March 2024

April 2024

May 2024

July 2024

We could start using the inside from August 2024, while the landscaping carried on outside.

The groundworks team worked their way out along the driveway and finished on Friday 27 September 2024.

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We have been very pleased with our builder. It was an interesting and painless process. He employed very nice people, understood what we wanted and paid close attention to detail.

R A Lee Builders and Contractors Ltd.
Great Totham, Essex
01621 892503
07974 256348
russ@ralee.co.uk

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VW Transporter T5 to T5.1 Mirror

There are many references to how the T5 and T5.1 mirrors have different wiring. I encountered that today.

The left hand, near side in the UK, mirror on a VW Transporter T5 was damaged. I helped to replace both mirrors with the newer T5.1 style.

When connected without modification the T5.1 left hand mirror has reversed operation when plugged in to the older T5, the up down control moved the mirror in and out and the in out control moves it up and down.

The fix is very easy, simply swap two wires in the connector. On the original connector this is swap the grey wire and the purple wire positions.

To make things as confusing as possible, one of the other wires is grey with a purple stripe. Very difficult to differentiate without looking very closely.

To my surprise the right hand, UK drivers, side worked correctly without modification.

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Best gates ever

Made by our friend Dean Harris.

They replaced the rotten timber gates that have been there for many years.

The timber is Sweet Chestnut. It should go silver grey over time.

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