Roselea

Category: Tidy Up

  • Continued With Site Reorganisation

    We continued with our reorganisation of our site, completing the pile of the
    63mm by 38mm CLS timber. We have graded the timber into “good”, “so so” and
    “rubbish” to make sure that we maintain the quality of our building work. We
    felt that we needed to get on with the work so we put on our heavy duty
    waterproofs and carried on out in the rain, which was light to medium rain
    falling straight down in zero winds. We had only about 2mm of rain in the 3
    hours of our work.

    Next, we will create a tarpaulin covering along the length of the swimming
    lane to keep the rain off the timber and allow it to stay dry, and then
    after that, we deal with the 89mm by 38mm CLS timber.

    Yes this is taking time, but it is good to tidy up our site, move various
    piles of timber that are lying here and there, and this will create extra
    space for future delivery and easier car parking etc.

  • OSB Sheets and Half the CLS 63mm Timber Moved

    Today, before the thunderstorm arrived, we managed to move over the stack of
    OSB sheets (we have 34 of them left) including the protective house covering
    the wood. We also moved half the pile of the 63mm by 38mm CLS timber over to
    its new location.

    The picture below is the “Before” image of our timber yard just outside our
    front door, we are going to move everything around to the new swimming lane
    to store them there.

    Storage-area-before-clearance

    Storage-area-before-clearance

    Blocks-ready-for-timber

    Blocks-ready-for-timber


  • Damaged Cement Bags

    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.

    Damaged-Cement-Bags-2

    Damaged-Cement-Bags-2

    Damaged-Cement-Bags-1

    Damaged-Cement-Bags-1


    We think that the fork lift truck driver missed his aim and rammed into the
    bottom layer of the bags and ripped two great big holes and two minor holes
    into the next bags above. Even the wooden pallet was damaged too.

    We have no idea when it happened, somewhere along the line from the Blue
    Circle factory to our builders merchant, it had a coming together with the
    tongs of the fork lift machinery!! We have reported this incident to our
    builders merchant and we await for replacement bags we hope.

  • All 420 Concrete Blocks Moved!

    Today, we finished off moving the concrete blocks, all 420, yes all four
    hundred and twenty concrete blocks on 7 pallets. These are the narrow 140mm
    hollow blocks and we moved them all over to our swimming lane to serve as
    support piles for holding stacks of OSB sheets and the CLS timbers as well.
    Plus also the odds and ends we rescued from the dismantling of the old
    little cottage, and any other bits and pieces we have around the site like
    old pallets etc.

    But first, as you can see in the picture below, some of the support piles
    are taller than others and the reason for this is to allow us to lay a sheet
    of OSB on these taller piles and bridge the gap to the dirt behind the back
    wall of the swimming lane. This will allow us to use the mini digger to dump
    more dirt without spilling any into our nice and clean swimming lane! The
    gap needs filling up again after the soil has settled down and washed down
    in the recent rainfalls. This is exactly what we wanted to see and therefore
    we are putting more dirt up there to make sure it is all settled and solid
    to hold the fence posts sturdily, especially the workshop section where we
    need to rebuild the fence again.

    Blocks-moved-to-swimming-lane-2

    Blocks-moved-to-swimming-lane-2

    Blocks-moved-to-swimming-lane-1

    Blocks-moved-to-swimming-lane-1

    Blocks-moved-to-swimming-lane-3

    Blocks-moved-to-swimming-lane-3


  • Tidy Up After Wall Building!

    This afternoon, we started the tidy up process. We have finished building
    the walls of the swimming lane, as part of this stage of construction goes.

    We are now using the excellent space for storage and we are re-organising
    the site to move various items around.
    Like for example, all the concrete blocks we got delivered the other day, they will be very useful as “piles” to make sure our materials will stand clear of any water that probably will accumulate in the swimming lane!

    Blocks-Stacked-for-OSB-Storage-1

    Blocks-Stacked-for-OSB-Storage-1

    Blocks-Stacked-for-OSB-Storage-2

    Blocks-Stacked-for-OSB-Storage-2


    We have blocked off the other end of the lane with the rest of the fat 215mm blocks to stop (hopefully) the mud and dirt from leaking in the swimming lane, off the workshop’s higher grounds. The DPM is long enough to stretch right across the end and wrap around the front wall. We now got 3 columns of blocks, stacked up 7 high, with the DPM plastic sandwiched in between them.

    at the Beginning of the lane, we will put the OSB sheet stack, followed by two
    stacks of the CLS timber (the 63mm and 89mm pieces). Then a stack of the odd
    and ends timber that came from the old house, and finally a stack of old
    pallets and other equipment.

    We can really have a good old tidy up and sort out where future delivery of
    more timber and sheet material can go. This will maximise flexibility of
    storage.

  • Tidying Up site

    We have been tidying up the whole site ready for the start of phase 3 – the construction of the main house. The site clearance operation has been seeing various old piles of bricks (clay house bricks) being moved and soon the plants too!

    We will have a bonfire to get rid of materials like old shelving which got damaged in the rain, chopped branches and other garden rubbish.

    then the old compost heap will be spread across the whole garden to mix it well before the whole area is shoved up onto the mountain of dirt to clear away the top soil and get down to the sand.

  • Shed Moved and Bloated!

    The shed has been successfully moved to its new location.

    We have bloated it up by adding two more 4feet wide (8feeet high) panels to the side walls to extend it from 2.2metres to 4.6metres. The other dimension remains the same at 3.6metres wide.

    This change in size gave us a major boost in storage capacity for both our Oak planks, long offcuts and many items with are not needed in the short to medium term (like the gardening equipment).

    We made a new roof and tried out for the first time, a homemade ridge beam constructed using two 63mm by 38mm CLS timber lengths, sandwiched with two layers of 11mm OSB boards 400mm high. The resultant beam is 3.6metres long, 60mm thick and 400mm high. It was glued and screwed together. We mounted it up on top of the walls in the middle and constructed the roof using 63mm CLS timber rafters covered with 11mm OSB complete (8by4) sheets, 3 down each side of the ridge beam. Walking on the roof did not deflect the ridge beam at all, and jumping up and down (over 100kg body weight!) only gave a slight deflection of a millimetre or so!!

    The roof is now covered in fresh roofing felt, glued down with that black bitumen horrible stuff! A line gutters runs on both side and is collected into a water butt, through a filter box made of scotch brites, pebbles and stainless steel mesh!

    600mm deep Shelves have been installed on three sides of the shed, at 2feet apart and a 10 shelf rack also constructed to hold long flat items.

    The shed is quite loaded up now! !

    Box Beam Ridge

    Box Beam Ridge


    Walls Up

    Walls Up


    Walls Up

    Walls Up


    Roof On

    Roof On


    Roof Felted

    Roof Felted


    Roof Felted

    Roof Felted


    Gutters Fitted

    Gutters Fitted


    Gutters Fitted

    Gutters Fitted


    Storage Sheleves

    Storage Sheleves


    Storage Rack for long narrow items

    Storage Rack for long narrow items


    Storage Rack for long narrow items

    Storage Rack for long narrow items

  • Indoor Jobs – Wet Weather

    Today we were working indoors to get out of the wet weather. We tidied up the workshop and re-assembled an old work bench. It is 12 feet long and 3 feet wide! It has loads of storage space underneath so it is now much neater and easier to get to our stuff!

    We did rush out between rain showers to pick up all 100 concrete blocks to move them over to where our tunnel and chimney will be and also moved the 40 6m pipes. We did this to make room for the soil heaps which will be generated when we dig out the huge trench!