Over the last couple of weeks, we have been putting the finishing surface on the ceiling in our Great Room. This material is our Fermacell a plasterboard like sheet material, it’s a highly engineered gypsum based product which much harder and flatter. We started at our interior gable wall that we have built to divide off the Great Room from the rest of the First Floor and went around the ceiling in a clockwise direction until we got to the O section of the roof. Here we had to skip over that section and do the N and finally the M section, arriving back on the other half of the gable wall. The, we went back to the O section and completed getting up the fermacell boards.
All our joints between sheets, are glued together using PU construction glue, to ensure that we don’t get “crack” lines appearing after a few years through the shaking and wiggling of the timber structure, when blown by the winds outside. We will run the belt sander over all the joints as well, to make sure that it is very smooth, especially after we have pasted on filler on these joints .. and all the staple holes too.
Oh yes, all our water nozzles have been well glued as well, so we don’t have to rely on a double spanner to unscrew the blanking plate and replacing them with a real spray nozzle.
Then, we covered up the first parts of the Gable wall, on either side of the Gallery with more fermacell sheets, so that we can dismantle the working platform in a few weeks and still be able to complete the second half, the middle section because we have the Gallery to work from. This middle section will have a doorway and a collection of shelving units, both above and below the utility channel, with the lower units being extra deep so that there is a natural exposed top surface underneath the utility channel, for putting your cups or books down on.
Fermacell allover GR
All our joints between sheets, are glued together using PU construction glue, to ensure that we don’t get “crack” lines appearing after a few years through the shaking and wiggling of the timber structure, when blown by the winds outside. We will run the belt sander over all the joints as well, to make sure that it is very smooth, especially after we have pasted on filler on these joints .. and all the staple holes too.
Oh yes, all our water nozzles have been well glued as well, so we don’t have to rely on a double spanner to unscrew the blanking plate and replacing them with a real spray nozzle.
Glued in nozzle point
Then, we covered up the first parts of the Gable wall, on either side of the Gallery with more fermacell sheets, so that we can dismantle the working platform in a few weeks and still be able to complete the second half, the middle section because we have the Gallery to work from. This middle section will have a doorway and a collection of shelving units, both above and below the utility channel, with the lower units being extra deep so that there is a natural exposed top surface underneath the utility channel, for putting your cups or books down on.
We also boarded the inside of the ‘Conservatory’ Dormer.
But before we can do that, we needed to work on the Skylight, to get everything finished, including giving it a complete paint job too.
GR Dormer boarded
But before we can do that, we needed to work on the Skylight, to get everything finished, including giving it a complete paint job too.