A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
While the weather and temperature are cool at the moment, we took the opportunity to complete the Skylight while we still had the work platform available. The Skylight is a…
These last two weeks have seen us start work on building the initial framework for the walls for the rooms upstairs. We would like to lay down a “floor-plan” of…
We spent the day doing a whole heap of slicing up the last remaining heap of foam boards and chunks, chopping them down so that they are all a maximum…
We only needed these last couple of days to finish off covering up the plastic vapour barrier membrane with our 11mm OSB boards. We completed the “J”, then the “K”…
For the last two weeks, we have been making steady progress in inserting the horrible glass wool insulation into the roof rafters, filling them up to the brim, and then…
Today saw the conclusion of filling and covering up the rafters in section A and B of our roof. These last few weeks had loads of glass wool being inserted…
This week, we completed the task of inserting at least one layer of PU foam board up into the rafters that we can reach from the First Floor .. the…
We had a week of slicing and pushing loads of PU insulation foam boards up into the rafters! We carried on with the task we started last week where we…
We started on our next task on Wednesday, to design, create the parts and then build the staircase, all in just four days! The first job was to get our…
We resume the week by collecting up the sand we had spread across the kitchen to dry and sieved it through the finest mesh we had and lugged up six…