Installed Various Lighting Conduits Inside the Roof Rafters
This week, we have been installing a set of conduits for routing electric lighting cables to various hidden locations all over the ceiling in the Great Room. We wanted to…
Research in Different Kinds of Water Nozzles for a Fire Suppression System – Part 1
We have been researching into what we would need to incorporate a fire suppression system, using spray nozzles to produce a fine mist of water droplets. We have found that…
Surface of the Ceiling is Levelled Up and the Dormer has been Filled Up
We spent three days levelling up all the “ceilings” of the Great Room. We wanted to make sure that the overall surface of each plane of the sloping roof is…
All Remaining ‘Seconds’ Insulation is Now Hiding into the Roof Rafters Above Great Room
The final load of our third hand rubbish pieces of hard PU foam boards have been processed and most of it is now stuffed and glued into the roof rafters…
Extended the Ventilation Ducting for the Conservatory
We spent this week building and constructing the rest of the ventilation ducting that connect the Conservatory to our Air Con system. We had built the lower half that went…
Taking Measurements and Getting Quotes for our Triple Glazing Windows in Skylight
We spent the last three days measuring all our Skylight windows so that we can send off for quotations for creating triple glazing units. Now that we have built our…
Built a Temporary Working Platform
We spent the last three days in building a temporary working platform, right across the Great Room so we can access the rafters and get them filled up with insulation,…
The First Floor Roof Rafters All Filled With Insulations, All Covered in OSB!
We only needed these last couple of days to finish off covering up the plastic vapour barrier membrane with our 11mm OSB boards. We completed the “J”, then the “K”…
Visit from Building Control to Inspect What We Have Done
We had a letter in the post a couple of days ago, asking whether we had completed our build yet. It had been several years since we had an inspection…
C is Half Complete, and Progressing on H, I, J, K, L and M With the Glass Wool and Vapour Barrier Installed
For the last two weeks, we have been making steady progress in inserting the horrible glass wool insulation into the roof rafters, filling them up to the brim, and then…