Category: Build Progress

Today we hired an industrial floor sanding machine. The sanding system is a drum about 250mm (10inches) wide and the heavy weight of the sander really made quick work of…

We have started sorting out the planks of Oak and selecting the best ones to do the frames in the windows. The four back windows are very similar in size…

We have the hot water tank installed! It was a tight fit in the corner and in hindsight the design of the walls in that corner, should have allowed for…

We continue to route and connect pipes together in and around the hot water tank corner. We made a drain valve connection with a piece of hose pipe and sealed…

We started laying in the various water pipes in and around the hot water tank. It is quite a tight space to route all the pipes like for example the…

Yesterday we finished the last piece of work needed to be done on the floor in the Garden Room. The central section where the Earth Tubes comes up out of…

Our Garden Room, over the last three days, have been painted with various layers of white emulsion. The bottom (first) coat was using a cheap B&Q matt emulsion as the…

We spent the morning cleaning the whole garage, vacuuming all the floors, walls and windows. We are getting ready for the painting task.

The Garden Room is at last, has all its holes, cracks, joints, corners and dents filled in with filler. We have been using two different sort of filler, we decided…

We are making progress! We are more than half way completed with the filling operations. All the staple holes are now filled, most of the boundaries have rounded corners and…