Templates Created and Larch Planks Starts Going up on Walls
At last, we can actually see the Larch cladding timber going up on our walls this week! But first, we made a couple of templates; a lap joint cutting guide…
First Set of Larch Timber Dipped in Fire Retardant Liquid and Second Set Dipped in Oil
This week, we finished waterproofing our dunking trough, with two layers of thin plastic sheeting we found in the shed and then covered over with a left-over length of our…
All Larch Timber Scorched and Chemical Dunk Trough Built
The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…
Scorching Machine is Complete
It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…
Slate Skirt Complete
By Tuesday lunch time, we had finished gluing up all the Slates that forms the Skirt on the wall running right around the house. Some 300 slates were stuck onto…
Slate Skirt Continues to Half Way
We started the week reviewing our complete set of task lists, removing those ones that we have done, and adding new ones plus doing some other chores like shopping. So…
Creation of Slate Skirt Progresses
On Monday we went off to the local DIY store to buy a sheet of 75mm thick polystyrene foam board and we made a little portable “hot wire” cutter! We…
Oak Windows Frames Ready, Slate Ribbon Started
We resumed the task of getting our Oak Window Frames prepared, ready to be inserted into the house. The next job was to waterproof the inner section of the frames…
All Window Frames Created and Installed New Better Looking Fencing for Loke
For the start of the new week, we sanded down all the wood filler we had applied to the Sill and Header pieces where there were small knot holes and…
New Version of Larch Cladding Scorcher Machine created, Eves Got Second Coat of Black and Windows are Progressing
We started our new week in the workshop to continue developing the scorching machine. We decided to completely dismantle our first version and start over again. Using our new found…