Construction of External Wall Begins!
With a slightly shortened work day, we started assembly, adjusting and building the External Wall of our house at last! The first job was to adjust each and every Leg…
Second Layer of Top-Plate for External Wall done
Today, we started off in the workshop to build the combined Top-Plate for Wall “E” which has another extended beam coming out to support the porch we got hanging over…
Sorting and Cutting Timber for the Top-Plate of the External Wall
Today, on a chilly and windy day, we took the timber that had already regular slots cut into them, and sorted and cut them for the Top-Plate of the External Wall.…
Corner Posts All Done
This afternoon, we glued and nailed the last “wing” onto our pieces we made yesterday to produce the completed Corner Posts at last! This finishes off the long job…
Day 3 of Corner Posts Creation
On this bank holiday Monday, we carried on with the creation of the 12 Corner Posts for the Perimeter Wall. First of all, we set up the circular saw to…
The Twelve Corner Posts Creation Continues
Today, we took all our sawn up lengths of the 89mm CLS timber, and marked them up to make sure we had the correct end as the top of the…
Workbench Vacuum System Designed and Fitted
These last two days has been time spent on adding a vacuum system to the modular Workbench unit. Using rigid plastic pipes and right angled corners plus a Y junction,…
Parts for the Corner Posts Sliced
It was another day of working in the Workshop while the cold rainy weather front slowly drifted down from the North. Today, we created the Parts that will make the…
All The Perimeter Legs Now Created
Today, we carried on making our Legs that will create our External Wall of the house. We got the glue dispenser going, connected up the nail gun and started loading…
Rain Changed Order of Work and We Created Heaps of Leg Parts
Since there was a big threat of rain arriving in the early afternoon, we changed our planned task for the day and instead went into more Factory Production mode to…