External Wall Skin Starts Growing
Today sees the start of the cement board skin being mounted on our External Wall framework. But first, we did some measurements of all the corners and also transferred the…
External Wall Completed – Day 4
In glorious sunshine, we finished off the final wall sections to complete the circuit of the whole house. Wall’s “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”, I.e. the Front Door and Entertainment…
Day 3 of External Wall Going Up
We started the day in lovely hot sunshine .. but only for about 2 hours this morning before it got cloudy and chilly. We continued working on assembling and building up…
External Wall Continues to Grow – Day 2
In a very misty like sprinkle of rain, we started the new week by continuing with the erection of the External Wall, doing wall “M”, wall “N” and wall “O”,…
Construction of External Wall Continues
It was a long 9 hour day minus a 45 minutes lunch break and also a little “tea” break too! We continued with the assembling of the External Wall using…
Construction of External Wall Begins!
With a slightly shortened work day, we started assembly, adjusting and building the External Wall of our house at last! The first job was to adjust each and every Leg…
Second Layer of Top-Plate for External Wall done
Today, we started off in the workshop to build the combined Top-Plate for Wall “E” which has another extended beam coming out to support the porch we got hanging over…
Sorting and Cutting Timber for the Top-Plate of the External Wall
Today, on a chilly and windy day, we took the timber that had already regular slots cut into them, and sorted and cut them for the Top-Plate of the External Wall.…
Corner Posts All Done
This afternoon, we glued and nailed the last “wing” onto our pieces we made yesterday to produce the completed Corner Posts at last! This finishes off the long job…
Day 3 of Corner Posts Creation
On this bank holiday Monday, we carried on with the creation of the 12 Corner Posts for the Perimeter Wall. First of all, we set up the circular saw to…