Started Constructing Walls for the Rooms Upstairs
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…
Sliced up all the Remaining Foam Boards, Tidy up Generally and Moved the CLS Timber Pile
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…
The First Floor Roof Rafters All Filled With Insulations, All Covered in OSB!
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”…
C is Half Complete, and Progressing on H, I, J, K, L and M With the Glass Wool and Vapour Barrier Installed
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…
Completed Section A and B of Roof Rafters
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…
Roof Rafters Accessible from First Floor Has Some Insulation 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…
Installing Insulation Into Roof
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…
Staircase Designed, Parts Created and Fully Assembled
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…
Work Continues on Construction of First Floor and Its Floorboards
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…
Stephen has that falling feeling…
Stephen nearly fell through the floor today! He was walking across the unfinished floor to fit a piece of plumbing pipe when he stepped on the edge of a small…