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…
Templates Created and Larch Planks Starts Going up on Walls
At last, we can actually see the Larch cladding timber going up on our walls this week! But first, we made a couple of templates; a lap joint cutting guide…
Sun Shield Covers Corridor and Cold Water Header Tank Inspected
Today, we reinstalled our usual Sun Shield over the long corridor of our temporary living quarters. It was quite late this year, perhaps we got used to the heat coming…
First Set of Larch Timber Dipped in Fire Retardant Liquid and Second Set Dipped in Oil
This week, we finished waterproofing our dunking trough, with two layers of thin plastic sheeting we found in the shed and then covered over with a left-over length of our…
All Larch Timber Scorched and Chemical Dunk Trough Built
The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…
Berm All Finished
The task of rebuilding the Berm continued over Monday, Tuesday and finally Wednesday. We wanted the Berm to be high enough to stop the majority of the rain water that…
Widen and Flatten Out the Driveway Berm
In a very disrupted couple of weeks .. we had steady rain all last week from Tuesday to Friday and some on Saturday afternoon too (a total of about 25mm…
We are Weather tight! All Window Frames installed and “glazed”
Continuing from Wednesday, with the guttering job done, we got on with installing our oak window frames. Over the next three days, we took each frame, test fitted it (making…
Finished Bringing Gutters Back to Fresh Colours and All Oiled
We started the week with the continuing task of cleaning the gutters and fascia. After being exposed to the sun and weather for at least 5 months and in some…