This morning, we sliced up one of our cement boards into lots of 110mm wide strips and went around gluing and nailing them under all the windows to complete the covering up of the timber framework.
Strips-added-to-bottoms-of-windows-and-doors
We also did the small vertical bits of the doorways too, two each side of the door right down at the bottom section of the timber framework which was still exposed.
Then this afternoon, we routed the waste overhanging cement boards around all the openings, 15 of them, around the house. Using a straight cutter with a ball bearing little wheel at the tip of the cutter, we ran the machine around the edges of the windows and doors, using the inside surface of the timber framework to guide the little wheel on the cutter.
Bearing-guided-cutter
Shaun-in-Action-trimming-around-window
The cutting generated a lot of dust, Shaun had both a breathing mask and goggles on to protect him. We managed only to do eleven and half of the opening before the end of the day, with a delay of an hour to repair the router machine.
Tomorrow, we will finish off the remaining three and half openings (three windows and one door – one of the windows is half done) and the next job is to cut the slots in the top of the cement panels on top of the walls.