Roselea

Author: Shaun

  • Lights for the Garden Room

    Stephen has built the lighting strips for the Garden Room. The concealed indirect lighting channels in the Garden room are much more narrow than what we have in the garage itself. The lighting units are mounted on long strips of timber (38mm by 25mm and 3.9m long! They are wrapped completely up in aluminium foil to provide both an earthing point for the florescent maps themselves, a reflective surface to maximise light output into the room and finally a conductive heat transfer mechanism to cool the controller.

    There are lamps on each end of the strip with the controller unit in the middle. The Mains Lighting circuit will be connected at one end so the whole strip can be disconnected for maintenance.

    Two of these have been made and that will be the total lighting in the Garden room. They are installed in the Garden room such that the tubes on opposite sides don’t line up, this gives the best distribution of light.

    GR Lights installed

    GR Lights installed

  • Sliding doors varnished

    The sliding doors for the WC are now varnished! They have had their 3 coats of clear floor grade varnish.

    WC sliding doors varnished

    WC sliding doors varnished

    Next is to make an Oak “buffer” strips for the two doors to bash together and conceal the layers of the construction. We will put on magnetic strips as well to help keep the two doors closed while the WC is engaged!

  • Half sealed!

    Stephen went around sealing the gaps between the partition walls, using a complete can of expanding PU foam. He only managed to do the lounge and the first bedroom.

    Sealing the gaps with foam

    Sealing the gaps with foam


    Sealing the gaps with foam

    Sealing the gaps with foam


    Sealing the gaps with foam

    Sealing the gaps with foam

    The excess will be trimmed off and covered with white cloth tape.

  • Partition Walls Done

    All three partition walls are now finished in their basic structure and coverings. Next we will fill in the gaps around the edges in the corners to improve sound insulation, cover up the joints with white tape and then paint them.

  • Partition Wall ‘2 done

    We have partition wall number 2 up and completed! It was pretty much the same as number 1.

    We have started on the third and last partition and have up the framework.

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  • All Taped Up!

    This morning we applied the glazing tape to the Oak Frame and the Beading ready for the glass. The tape is a double sided sticky foam strip. The foam is 3mm thick to allow the glass to have movement during thermal expansion and pressure differences between inside and outside (for example strong winds).

    All we need now is some good weather to allow us to remove the old plastic sheets and battens which are acting (just barely) as windows, clean the surfaces and screw in the new Oak Frames etc.

  • Partition Wall ‘1 all done

    The first partition wall in our temporary living quarters is done. The framework of 63mm CLS timber filled with 100mm glass wool and covered on both sides with 12.5mm plasterboards.

    First bedroom boarded out

    First bedroom boarded out

    Only two more to go!

  • Back Windows All Ready for Fitting

    We are now ready to fit the four back windows when the glass comes and the weather improves! The beadings are made, ready to hold the double glazing units in place. The glass is expected to come tomorrow.

    We have our part list ready for the final seven windows, the four down one side and three on the other side of the garage. It will take another good week to complete these seven frames.

    All window frames finished

    All window frames finished

  • Frames 3 and 4 Glued

    Yesterday we finished the last two frames we had on the go. This completes the four back window frames ready for insertion when the glass comes and when the weather allow us!

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    Now the other seven window frames to make!

  • Fresh Air Duct complete

    we finished off the fresh air ducting today while we waited for the glue to set on our Oak Window frames. It now connects to the new building through the little connecting doorway.

    Air duct completed

    Air duct completed