Today under a very hot sun and not much wind, we continued with mounting up the third layer of the full size cement boards onto the external walls.
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We now have completed wall A (the Kitchen and Great Room) and wall B (the side window of the front door extension) which are the walls facing the Loke. We then completed wall P (the long side of the Great Room) and turned the corner to do wall O, now going along the back of the house. We finished off the day’s work by completing wall N which is the side wall with a window in it and still part of the Great Room.
We made a helpful little wooden platform, made of two legs with triangle bracing corners and a 89mm CLS laid flat on top. This tool allowed us to hoist the cement panels up 4 feet and then get the ladders and equipment in place so we can then carry on hauling up these heavy cement boards up the final distance into place (You can see it in the last Photo).
We have used up all our prepared sheets so we will need to cut more grooves into the remaining boards on our pallet, which there are 19 sheets left. We hope that is enough to complete this job!!
Now there will be a short break from any further work while we have to do other tasks for the next few days.