A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Today, for our Entertainment Room, we calculated the number of concrete blocks and concrete floor beams needed to build a sound reducing barrier around the walls and ceiling. There are…
Today saw the arrival of our Larch wall cladding timber! But it was most unexpected and the first sign that it was coming, was a phone call from the driver…
Because we had an interruption of work outside, due to rain all day Wednesday and also Thursday morning, we switched over to doing alternative work indoors. This time, we tackled…
Today was spent on the computers, looking at the guttering, the facia and the windows, to decide on what kind of Oak we will need, what size and how much.…
This morning, we got the first 20 Aquacell crates opened up, blasted with jets of water and reassembled back together again! We made a small dent in the pile of…
This afternoon, while we waited for the black metal paint to dry on the wheel hub, we made a new tool to help us take apart the plastic holey crates,…
Today, during our tidy up of the site, we were moving the last 18 bags of cement, and discovered that several of the bags, 4 of them, were damaged. We…
We bought a sheet of copper, 1000mm long by 640mm wide and half a millimetre thick! This piece will serve as our base of the heat exchanger for the shower.
We had the delivery of our plastic crates today. It was a long day of sorting it out and storing them away. It was funny as well because while we…
The staples we are using to hold the Fermacell up are heavy duty wide crown staples. The crown in just under half an inch (11.1mm) and the wire is 1.5mm square.…