Laying Out Footplates for Kitchen, Bedroom 1 and Great Room
After doing other tasks and chores for most of this week, we started on Friday afternoon, the task of mapping out the shapes of the Kitchen and Bedroom 1, with…
Second Delivery of CLS Timber Arrives
Our remaining timber arrived Thursday yesterday late afternoon. There were 348 planks in this second delivery, adding with our previous one of 99, we now have 447 planks of 63mm…
Tidy Up and Replace Lighting Units Plus Installed New Camera System
After skipping the first day of the new week because of some appointments, the next three days we went around tidying up the house after we had finished the Entertainment…
Concrete Beams and Blocks Forms the Lid for the Entertainment Room
This week it is the turn of the Concrete Beams and hundreds more of the concrete blocks to be hoisted up and laid out to form the roof of the…
Untreated 63mm by 38mm CLS timber Arrives
We had our delivery of fresh timber arrive today, this morning, but it turned out to be only fraction of what we ordered. There was some confusion back in the…
Concrete Shell Almost Finished
Monday, we did two and half layers in building up our wall inside the Entertainment Room, that is over seventy blocks! We completed layer 4, then number 5 and number…
Concrete Wall Grows Taller
For this new week, we started the task of building the concrete shell that will sound proof our Entertainment Room. The first task was to make a template to help…
Ten Concrete Beams Arrives
Suddenly at a bright early hour, our concrete beams, all ten of them, arrive! We had to parked them on our driveway in such a position so we could then…
Jig to Slice Concrete Blocks
This morning, we created a jig to help us slice up concrete blocks using our large mains powered angle grinder fitted with a diamond coated cutting blade. We put several…
Concrete Blocks Arrives
The first load of new building material arrived today. 576 dense concrete blocks arrived with a ton bag of soft sand, eight bags of cement, two large paving slabs and…