Rain Water Underground Tank Brought Into Operation
Today was a wet day so we decided to work on another task. Something that we could have done much later but we felt that we could make use of…
Templates Created and Larch Planks Starts Going up on Walls
At last, we can actually see the Larch cladding timber going up on our walls this week! But first, we made a couple of templates; a lap joint cutting guide…
First Set of Larch Timber Dipped in Fire Retardant Liquid and Second Set Dipped in Oil
This week, we finished waterproofing our dunking trough, with two layers of thin plastic sheeting we found in the shed and then covered over with a left-over length of our…
All Larch Timber Scorched and Chemical Dunk Trough Built
The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…
Scorching Machine is Complete
It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…
Larch scorching machine progressing
You may remember that we have decided to lightly scorch all of our larch cladding to give the walls more texture both visual and physical. We are using an ancient…
We are Weather tight! All Window Frames installed and “glazed”
Continuing from Wednesday, with the guttering job done, we got on with installing our oak window frames. Over the next three days, we took each frame, test fitted it (making…
Finished Bringing Gutters Back to Fresh Colours and All Oiled
We started the week with the continuing task of cleaning the gutters and fascia. After being exposed to the sun and weather for at least 5 months and in some…
Inspecting the Gutters, Sealed the Metal Mesh Edge and Starting to clean and oil them.
We started our week on a Tuesday after having a day off for Easter. We finished off applying the black yukky mastic stuff to the top edge of the Slate…
Slate Skirt Complete
By Tuesday lunch time, we had finished gluing up all the Slates that forms the Skirt on the wall running right around the house. Some 300 slates were stuck onto…