The Last 8 Oak Covers Created and Installed
Following the initial progress we made on sorting out the Oak timber last Saturday, we resumed to produce the Octagon Covers for our seven inside corners to hide the plastic…
Oak Covers Created for Nine Outside Corners
The last 9 days or so have been spent on processing a pile of Oak timber pieces and generating nine finished covers to hide the cut ends of the Larch…
Upgraded Electricity Supply to House to Allow High Power Tools
The last couple of days was spent replacing a simple low power electric spur from the Garage to the main House with a higher powered circuit. We pulled through three…
All Walls Done At Last! L, M and N Sections Completes the Cladding Job!
We Have Done It! The whole house is now fully clad with our Larch timber! It took only a day and a half to finish off the last bit, the…
Big Complex H wall Now Complete Plus I, J, K and O all Done Too!
By Monday lunch time, we had finished off the last triangular piece of the wall above the Utility’s window and door, the gable wall of the Porch. We then moved…
Replaced Caterpillar Tracks on mini Digger
We discovered a couple of days ago, at the weekend, that one of the caterpillar tracks had split and ripped half way across. We can see rusty steel wires sticking…
Cladding Second Stage – The Fire Treated Larch Timber for the Back of the House
We started the new week by moving the remaining oiled standard planks to storage in the swimming lane. Then we started processing our second set of Larch timber that had…
Front Porch Wall is Clad plus also Walls D and E too
Upon the resumption of the new week, we got on with the task of cladding the Front Porch wall, the “C” section that has the main house door and Entertainment…
Larch Cladding Progresses, P2, A and B Sections all Finished
We resumed work on putting up more Larch cladding planks on to the wall sections “P2” and “A”, coming around the Great Room and along the front of the house.…
Rain Water Underground Tank Brought Into Operation
Today was a wet day so we decided to work on another task. Something that we could have done much later but we felt that we could make use of…