Category: Build Progress

We had a long day of adjusting and setting the exact height of the wooden Inside Footplate for our External Wall. We decided that we would plane and trim the…

Today, we went around fixing into place the bottom layer of the Footplate timber pieces that makes up the inner structural leg element of the External Wall. We drilled a…

This afternoon, we went around the whole perimeter and finished marking out where the footplate is going to go. We used a can of spray black paint and an old…

Early this morning, the last of our building material arrives! At 8:51am, the lorry came reversing down our Loke, loaded with all our timber planks! They were: 4 large pallets…

This afternoon, we made a measuring tool to allow us to survey the height of the concrete floor around the base of the External Wall, log the results down on…

This afternoon, we finished off the tidy up operation around the base of the External Wall, clearing the last small section of the concrete floor of leaves, dirt and rubble. We…

Today, we carried on with the tidy up operation around the base of the Perimeter Wall, to remove leaves, rubble and dirt that has been blown in these last few…

Today was spent tightening the concrete screws on our Footplate on the External Wall. We had to make sure the screws went down and gripped firmly the timber plank into…

This afternoon, the cement boards, 70 sheets of 10mm thick by 2400mm x 1200mm, arrived and unloaded onto another prepared patch of ground. In fact, we counted 73 sheets! It…

This morning, we suddenly heard a “beep” “beep” while we were still indoors and discovered that the next delivery load of building material was arriving! Quick! Put on Shoes! Rush…