Month: October 2020

This week, we started on building our timber Stud Wall that surrounds the concrete shell that encloses the Entertainment Room. But before that, we created another piece of equipment down…

We made contact with our Triple Glazing supplier and directed them to our previous blog report. After examining the photos, they decided to send their Sales Director to inspect our…

We started the week by creating a new piece of equipment, this time, a plank slicing station down in our Great Room, using our large chop saw and a length…

Today, we discovered a leak in our corridor in our temporary living quarters while it was raining outside! Upon closer inspection, there was a hole right through the outer layer…

On Tuesday, in lovely sunshine, we went around cleaning our new windows, on the outside surfaces. We will do the inside later on after we have sealed the inner glass…

For the start of our new week, for the start of the work inside the house, we got on in sorting out the area where the Entertainment Room is situated.…

We needed a tool to set out the rooms inside the house, as all the walls are right angled we needed something to get long right angled measurements. So we…

After buzzing around several different suppliers, all across the country, looking for pre-stressed concrete beams and dense concrete blocks (the heavier 20kg ones), we chased down various prices, ranging from…

After the glass was installed into the twelve windows, we spent the next two weeks putting on the Oak Beadings and Wings to finish off each window. Each window has…

Today, for our Entertainment Room, we calculated the number of concrete blocks and concrete floor beams needed to build a sound reducing barrier around the walls and ceiling. There are…