Fermacell Arrives!
Our 120sheets of Fermacell has arrived! The lorry couldn’t fit down the Loke so they got their fork lift truck (they bought it with them!) and offloaded, separately, the two…
Conduits in Walls
We have been inserting the conduits in the walls and other pipework! The electrics data and along with other pipes like compressed air, vacuum and water & waste. It is…
Glass Wool Insulation Installed!
Today we put up 100mm thick glass wool insulation in all the walls (front, middle, back and the two sides). We wore one piece dust protective suits and dust masks…
Joined Up!
The Garage and the old workshop are now connected together via a short corridor! We used sections of old pieces of 18mm OSB sheets to build the mini ceiling, the…
Roof Nailed and Covered with Rubber!
It was a nice day again so we finished off the nailing requirement as specified in the structural engineer’s report. It was very nice having a compressed air nail gun…
roof Boards are on!
The last two days we have been humping up 30 sheets of 18mm OSB boards on to the Garage roof, grabbing the fine dry weather! This was to ensure that…
Noggings and Roof Boards Preparations
Today we sawn 22 more noggins made from our stock of “spare” 63mm by 38mm CLS timber , to brace the middle part of the iBeams over the front portion…
Trimmed the Tops!
And we also trimmed the excess material off the tops of the walls. The OSB boards were nailed to the very tops of the iBeams and noggins (on the front)…
All Metal ties are in place
Today we resumed our work on our Garage after a 3 day break for Christmas! We finished putting on the metal bracket pies holding down the iBeams(the rafters) across the…