Cement Board Skin on External Wall Almost Done
In the glorious and very hot sunshine, we resumed the task of covering the External Wall with our 10mm thick cement boards. But first, as instructed in our approved structural…
Rain Stops Work
We discovered the rain was falling down when we wanted to start work on the new week, and the forecast had a high chance of more rain all day so…
Cement Boards Continues around External Wall
Today, we resumed our task of nailing up the 10mm thick cement boards onto our External Wall framework. After bringing all the tools out for this operation, namely, compressed air…
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…