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 our Leg elements. We finished off adjusting the final 4 Legs on wall “I” we left from yesterday, and then brought out the compressed air nail gun and tubes of the special waterproof glue, to fix each Leg into place along wall “H” and “I”, a total of 20 Legs.
Walls-HI-with-legs-in-place
Nails-and-Glue-on-posts
Then we put on the Top-Plate pieces of timber on top of the legs and anchoring at the corner with temporary screws to make the whole wall so much more solid and stable.
Walls-HI-with-top-plates
We then resumed adjusting more Legs on the next section, wall “J”, another 4 Legs, using the chop saw and guillotine
Chop-saw-and-Gilotine
Chop-saw-slicing-thin-pieces-off
Gilotine-in-operation
And nailing and gluing those in place, plus the top-plate too.
We progressed around onto the next wall section “K” which was a longer stretch with a window in it, a total of 9 Legs.
And finally, we completed wall “L”, another 5 Legs, getting half way along the back of the house next to the swimming lane.
Walls-HI-Framed
Walls-IJK-Framed
Walls-KL-Framed
A grand total of 38 Legs we installed today! Only 65 Legs to go! Phew!