Roselea

Category: Tidy Up

  • Massive Tidy-Up in Workshop to Set It Ready for the Production of Roof Rafters

    For the start of the week, we did a massive tidy up operation in our workshop today! It was very necessary as the finished rafters are very long and we needed the room to have a stack of ready-to-go materials, a working assembly area and finally, a stack of completed pieces. For example, the largest rafter is 5.5metres long and 400mm wide. And in total, we will be making just about 200 of them in all sizes!! So This meant having one major spring clean (in the middle of Summer!) of the whole workshop, moving out pieces of equipment and bits and pieces we did not need at this precise moment in time to our other storage rooms and then rearranging everything on the side workbench so we could clear away the middle part of the workshop, collapse down a line of storage tables and swept the place clean!

    Floor-cleared-for-Rafter-making

    Floor-cleared-for-Rafter-making


    We are one very dusty individuals at the end of the day! But at least, we are now in the position to get a production line going once we have designed and set up the equipment, tools and templates which we will start doing tomorrow!!

  • Septic Tank Serviced and Workshop Tidied Up

    This morning, we had the Septic Tank serviced and emptied. We then gave it a once over, cleaning the various inlet and outlet pipes to make sure they were all cleared and flowing nicely. Also, the electric air pump was opened up to check the moving parts were all clean and in good working order.

    Then, after lunch, we carried on with tidying up the workshop, sorting out the tall rack of sheet materials and throwing away little pieces and putting similar items onto their own shelves. It has been rather jumbled up over these last few years and now it is nice and neat again!!

    The Workbench is now ready for the commencing of creating our External Wall Legs which will be tomorrow – at last!

  • Chop Saw Adapted for Modular Work Table and Spring Clean in Workshop

    A mixture of sorting out and tidying up our workshop and also adapting our large chop saw for our modular workbench system.

    Chop-saw-module

    Chop-saw-module

    The chop saw is our old one we have had for years, capable of slicing material as wide as 300mm and as deep as 80mm, which will be very useful when we come to slicing roof rafters and floor joists. The saw is able to be slid into place and be locked into position with it’s own fence lining up with the workbench’s twin fences on either side.

    While that was being executed, the whole workshop got a spring clean, starting with our box trolleys on wheels, four of them in a line under our stack of sheet material. Each of these boxes contains off cuts of various material like OSB, pine timber, plywood and Oak hardwood pieces. We decided that any piece that is smaller than 4 inches goes out and off to the fire pile.

    The new chop saw was use to cut up strips of plywood to start to make the spacers which will hold the outer and inner legs apart, this is  a pile of 48 but we will need over 300 of them….

    Leg-Spacing-pieces

    Leg-Spacing-pieces

    Then the old saw table (a full 8feet by 4feet) was put away by removing its four legs and sliding the whole thing up onto the top tier of our rack of sheet material. It was far too large to have around, now we have our new modular workbench. We needed the room to have a pile of building elements to be stacked up while the glue is drying and room for raw materials to come in and get processed into whatever we need for the house construction.

    Empty-space-in-workshop

    Empty-space-in-workshop

    Tomorrow, we will just finish off the tidying up operation and then start chopping up 89mm and 63mm CLS timber to make our External Legs!!

  • Quick Tidy Up

    We also spent some of the morning tidying up and doing minor servicing tasks around the site. We dismantled the painting tent and framework. We moved the 7 painted steel legs to around the house so each one is nearer to where they will be standing up.

    We also cleaned out the drainage sump to clear out the muck and cleaned the filter wrapped around the pump and replaced a rain protection bag over the ends some of the conduits etc.

  • Floor Cleared of Rubble

    This afternoon, we concluded the bulk tidy-up of the chunks of concrete rubble lying inside the Perimeter Wall, loaded into 4 wheelbarrows and transported down to our “rubbish” area, made up of large Ton bags which are now filled up with various waste rubble.

    Half the concrete blocks that were used to weigh down the shuttering and expansion joints on the Floor Slab have been moved to sit on the Perimeter Wall, ready for the final move to the Swimming Lane to wait for use in later construction.

  • All Levelled and Flat around the House

    This morning, again in brilliant sunshine, we finished off the smoothing and levelling out the ground around the Great Room.

    Leveling-surrounds-Great-Room

    Leveling-surrounds-Great-Room

    It is all very neat and tidy now and we can walk or push trolleys right around the building, gaining access to the Swimming lane where the timber store is, or pass the Garage or along the front beside the Loke.

  • Levelling off the Ground Continues ..

    Today, in lovely sunshine, we carried on with the job of moving and levelling out the excess piles of soil and sand heaped around the outside of the house.

    Leveling-surrounds-Back-done

    Leveling-surrounds-Back-done

    We finished the remaining section along the back, past Bedroom 1 and the Great Room, continuing around the corner towards the conservatory. Surprisingly, the heaps of sandy soil that came out of doing the foundation strips, is still disappearing to fill up the gap right behind the Perimeter Wall, up to the ground level, well actually, we decided to level to the height of 2 blocks up off the foundation which is 50mm (2inches) below the real ground level. This means that we will have a bit of room to lay down the proper finishing surface like brick weave for the patio and footpaths etc.

  • External Ground Levelled Continues

    Today, the work of smoothing out the ground around the outside of the house continues, working alongside the Garage and the side door of the house.

    Leveling-surrounds-Utility-n-Bed3

    Leveling-surrounds-Utility-n-Bed3

    Leveling-surrounds-Back-before-work

    Leveling-surrounds-Back-before-work


    Then, around the corner, finishing  off the patch at the beginning of the Swimming lane and continued along the back alongside Bedroom 2 and Bedroom 1. It is surprising that the large mounds of soil is disappearing in filling up the gap next to the External Wall and so far there is next to nothing “left over” to have to get rid of – Phew!!

  • Levelling Soil Around the House!

    Today, before the steel arrived, the soil around the perimeter of the house and it’s wall, continued to be levelled, covering up the rainwater pipework and making it smooth and relatively flat.

    The area around the corner of the Swimming lane and the Garage was sorted out and made level, and will continue along the back pass Bedroom 3 towards the Great room.

  • Workshop Cleared and Prepared for the Steel Fabrication!

    This afternoon, we continued with the tidying up operation, while we waited for the steel pieces to be delivered, by tackling the garage workshop!

    We took a load of rubbish cut-off strips from under the saw table, plus some long left over timber pieces from yesterday’s sorting of wood rack and transported them down to the burn pile and some of the nicer pieces (inch by 3inch rough sawn 8 feet piece of timber) were put into the timber storage area under cover in the swimming lane.

    We then managed to get the concrete “stools” out of the plastic trugs, being made way back when we had the foundation strips poured – we had excess concrete and filled 4 trugs with the concrete and today, we finally managed to release the stools!

    Then we removed the 2nd work table (which was a sheet of MDF sheet 1inch thick, on top of our old dining table!) and moved over the saw table further into the middle of the garage, to make room for bringing in the steel pieces when we want to work on each piece.

    The whole workshop got a bit of a sweep on the floor too – smile!

    We now await for the arrival of our steel pieces tomorrow (Wednesday)!