At the beginning of the week, we finished off preparing the Utility Room by concluding the task of putting up OSB wall boards around the door and then trimmed the window .. well we eventually managed it .. slowly! The router bit we had is getting rather blunt so we ordered some more replacement cutters, […]
We arrived for this new week to resume our work on preparing the Utility Room, to get it ready for installing the vast collection of equipment, tanks, switches, pipes and many other bits and pieces that will provide the services like water, air, electricity, vacuum and other utilities. We got going on dealing with the […]
One of the first jobs was to move the existing electricity control board from over beside the window and position it out of the way on the dividing wall between this room and Bedroom Three and reconnect some of the electric cables so they were all out of the way before we could fill in […]
With the days drawing in and as each room is completed, less and less daylight is reaching the inner hallways and they are getting gloomier and gloomier plus also part of moving everything out of the Utility Room, sorting out the wiring, we decided that the hallways on the ground floor needed additional temporary lighting […]
We resumed the work on Bedroom 3 with the Wall Boards. We switched over to the tongue and groove method of joining two boards together and it seems to be working quite well. It is a simpler process of getting the two board to join as there are no loose biscuits to keep an eye […]
After having finished the floorboards for Bedroom 3, we can walk around much easier and inspect everything. We decided to swop out the cable conduits around the windows with our recently purchased rigid waste piping and also insert a another new piece of conduit, this time to provide access for power and signalling cables to […]
Continuing with Bedroom 3, this week we installed more various elements into the wall and floor structure to provide additional functionality to the operation within the room like, for example, a control box that will contain the electronic controller, a display module and local circuit breakers for the power lines. This was constructed from sheet […]
We continued with the work on Bedroom 3 and getting the floor, walls and windows ready. Whilst we are waiting for the deliveries, we got on with finishing the windows by putting the plastic vapour barrier around the bottoms and tops of the two windows. The first task we did was to insert small pieces of […]
We started the new week, after completing our staircase in just four days, by fixing up the metal joist bracket to the stringers at the top of the stairs. We had already made two triangle wedges and they were glued in on Saturday. The metal bracket was only screwed up this time because we want […]
Whilst tidying up the house of the insulation foam rubbish, a new set of shelves was created to provide more room for tools and parts to be on hand for this phase of working inside the house. We moved the Ikea shelves over to beside the new wall between Bedroom 3 and added an extension […]