Category: Build Progress

We had an interrupted morning with the rain coming in, quite a consistent downfall, averaging about four millimetres per hour, for four hours, making a lake of water collected inside…

In the glorious and very hot sunshine, we resumed the task of covering the External Wall with our 10mm thick cement boards. But first, as instructed in our approved structural…

Today, we resumed our task of nailing up the 10mm thick cement boards onto our External Wall framework. After bringing all the tools out for this operation, namely, compressed air…

 Today sees the start of the cement board skin being mounted on our External Wall framework. But first, we did some measurements of all the corners and also transferred the…

In glorious sunshine, we finished off the final wall sections to complete the circuit of the whole house. Wall’s “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”, I.e. the Front Door and Entertainment…

We started the day in lovely hot sunshine .. but only for about 2 hours this morning before it got cloudy and chilly. We continued working on assembling and building up…

In a very misty like sprinkle of rain, we started the new week by continuing with the erection of the External Wall, doing wall “M”, wall “N” and wall “O”,…

It was a long 9 hour day minus a 45 minutes lunch break and also a little “tea” break too! We continued with the assembling of the External Wall using…

With a slightly shortened work day, we started assembly, adjusting and building the External Wall of our house at last! The first job was to adjust each and every Leg…

Today, we started off in the workshop to build the combined Top-Plate for Wall “E” which has another extended beam coming out to support the porch we got hanging over…