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 exterior wall structure. We used the 3D printed glue applicator we made last week and it worked very well!
Second-top-plate-glued-on
Then after that, we took 20 sheets of cement boards and one by one, routed a groove into one edge on 13 of them and then did both a groove and tongue edges on the next 7 sheets.
They are all now sitting on our trolley ready for installation tomorrow.
Cement-boards-ready-for-last-row
We had a a surprise discovery this morning when we came across a nest balanced rather wobbly on a small heap of loose planks of timber, high up inside our exterior wall. It was an open twiggy type of nest with one small pure white egg about 15mm long in it. There was no noticeable bird hanging around but we made sure we didn’t disturb the nest too much and left it there. We hope the bird (possibly a Dove) will come back.