Shed Making Timelapse
Here are 6 daily timelapse videos of the construction of the new shed.
Phone Line Moved
BT Openreach came and moved the phone line today, from the old house to the garage. The old line was overhead and the new line is underground. Engineer cut off…
We are all living in the Temporary Accomodation
All three of us are now eating and sleeping in the new place. Sometime I thought it would never happen! There is still quite a lot of stuff still to…
Framing Staples
The staples we are using to hold the Fermacell up are heavy duty wide crown staples. The crown in just under half an inch (11.1mm) and the wire is 1.5mm square.…
The Board Lifter
We have bought a special lifting machine designed to raise sheets of material upto ceilings. The supporting arms can tilt in most directions allowing the board to be fitted to sloping…
Framed the WC and finished the battening
We framed out the WC for the garage which will have just a loo and basin in it. Spent some time getting it square all round! Then we finished off…
Counter battens fixed
We have fixed up the 38mm x 63mm battens on most of the walls, these are to provide a services area behind the wall surfaces. The gap between the close…
Finished roof boards
Finished off the last row of boards after the rain stopped this morning… We thought we would get all the nailing done but the rain returned! So we recovered the…
Back wall up!
Yahoo! the first wall of the building project is completed! We started the day by using the mini-digger to lift the wall to the just above horizontal, this reduces the…
Started the heave-ho
With the ramps ready it was time to start moving the wall into position to be lifted upright. We have bought a few sets of double pulley blocks and lots of rope!…