Cement Boards are coming!
We phoned today and were told that our cement boards will be delivered this Friday! Well we will see won’t we!?! Fingers crossed!
Preparing the front wall
We are continuing to build up piles of timber and pieces of jigsaw pieces ready for the day (or days) after the cement boards comes! We have been working on…
Nail gun arrives
Our new nail gun was delivered today (quite quick!). This gun comes with two tips,one allows you to drive standard nails into timber for joints and panel fixing, the other…
Ordered new Nail gun
This morning we did some research looking for a nailing gun which will allow us to nail metal plates onto timber as well as the usual wood joining plus the…
Cement Boards delays!
The supplier for the cement boards are being very slow in delivering them. We found out today that they are waiting for other orders to come in, to make it…
Stack of Cut Timber
We spend the afternoon cutting up most of the timber for the left side and the right side of the garage. We are still awaiting the cement boards to come…
Cut out Windows!
I waved the router around and cut the windows out in the back walls! Because the router bit has a ball bearing wheel exactly the same size as the diameter…
Chop Saw & Bench
We are using our old chop saw setup which includes three 4foot benches to hold and guide the timber into and out of the chop saw. It is getting old…
Building Inspector Approves our Wall!
Our building control inspector came today to take a look at our back wall. We assured him that the cement boards is the final layer with the DPM plastic material…
Glue Dispensing Machine
Stephen has designed a glue dispensing machine using an old pressure spray bottle. He made an adaptor using thermal plastic (you can soften this plastic in hot water and mould…