On this lovely warm Monday, we carried on adjusting, gluing and fixing into place the remaining six window subframes going around the Great Room, the Kitchen and lastly the Entertainment Room. We had our framing template which is exactly 1708 mm wide so that all our 6 foot width windows will be the same. We then did the two 4 foot windows (the side of the Great Room and the Utility Room) making them both 1098 mm wide and finally, we did our only 2 foot window in the side of the Front Door extension and that measured 480 mm wide.
Last-window-framed
The next job was to cut and frame the three doorways. They would need a height such that the top of the doors is the same as the windows so the calculations for this resulted in pieces of the timber to be 2252 mm long. We pulled out 3 lengths of our treated 89mm CLS timber and chopped them down to that size, but we noticed one of the timber being rather warped so we fetch’d another length from the pallet! We drilled 4 fixing clearance holes in each of the timber pieces, a clearance 8mm hole for the 100mm concrete screw and 3 x 5 mm holes for the ordinary 80 mm wood screws.
Taking the 6 pieces out, along with the SDS drill, spirit level, screwdrivers and glue etc. We started with the Great Room-Conservatory French style doorway and fixed and fiddled the two vertical timber pieces into place. It took quite a while for doing all of it, like drilling the concrete holes, getting the spacers in and out and finally getting both sides vertical. We then measured the gap or width of the doorway which turned out to be 1491 mm to 1493 mm in various levels from bottom to top.
We moved over to the Front Door and repeated everything again and the measurement this time came out at 1495 mm to 1496 mm wide. We were not concerned with this slight difference because these two doors are different styles and both are unique.
Comservatory-Door-framed
Tomorrow, we will finish off the third and final door, the Back Door, and move on to the next job of putting in lintels over all the openings, both windows and doors, all 15 of them!