Category: Walls

Also today, we were continuing with the task of cutting the vertical slots that will allow the rafter top flange to come through to form the support for the eves.…

Our building control inspector came along this afternoon to take a look our new walls. He was curious about our cement panels and what they were made of and we…

After finishing off the clearance of the openings this morning, we then switched over to the other router, we tackled the next job of slicing 38mm wide vertical slots at…

This morning, we finished off the task of removing the excess cement boards overlapping the openings. We had another three and half to go to complete  all 15 openings. Again,…

This morning, we sliced up one of our cement boards into lots of 110mm wide strips and went around gluing and nailing them under all the windows to complete the…

During the last two days, we continued putting up the cement panels to complete the third line on the external wall. We did Wall M, L, K and J yesterday and…

Today under a very hot sun and not much wind, we continued with mounting up the third layer of the full size cement boards onto the external walls. We now…

This morning and slightly later stopping due to other commitments, we started putting up the third line of cement panels on the External Wall. These panels were the pre-formed sheets…

Today, we went around sticking down the second layer of the top-plate on the wall. It is the 89mm wide timber to sit on the outer post that forms the…

These last two days, we have created lots of narrow strip of cement boards, and then nailed and glued them up on the exterior wall to build up the second…