First stage of interior wall completed
The first stage of the interior assembly of the walls is completed, well at least the front part of the garage is! As you can see, there is a slot…
First Layer of wall boards is going on!
In the garage, the front part, we have been putting up the first layer of wall boards. This layer is made of sheets of 18mm OSB with the edges cut…
Fermacell Arrives!
Our 120sheets of Fermacell has arrived! The lorry couldn’t fit down the Loke so they got their fork lift truck (they bought it with them!) and offloaded, separately, the two…
Conduits in Walls
We have been inserting the conduits in the walls and other pipework! The electrics data and along with other pipes like compressed air, vacuum and water & waste. It is…
Framed the WC and finished the battening
We framed out the WC for the garage which will have just a loo and basin in it. Spent some time getting it square all round! Then we finished off…
Counter battens fixed
We have fixed up the 38mm x 63mm battens on most of the walls, these are to provide a services area behind the wall surfaces. The gap between the close…
Glass Wool Insulation Installed!
Today we put up 100mm thick glass wool insulation in all the walls (front, middle, back and the two sides). We wore one piece dust protective suits and dust masks…
Joined Up!
The Garage and the old workshop are now connected together via a short corridor! We used sections of old pieces of 18mm OSB sheets to build the mini ceiling, the…
Roof Nailed and Covered with Rubber!
It was a nice day again so we finished off the nailing requirement as specified in the structural engineer’s report. It was very nice having a compressed air nail gun…
Finished roof boards
Finished off the last row of boards after the rain stopped this morning… We thought we would get all the nailing done but the rain returned! So we recovered the…