Garden Room’s Floor Structure is designed.
we have mapped out the various pipework, cables and other conduits that has to travel around under the floorboards including a fresh air channel to connect all the Earth Tubes…
Garden Room’s Ceiling is done
We have finished putting up the Fermacell panels up on the ceiling of the Garden Room. The system of routing a tongue and groove seems to be working but the…
Spring Clean, Utility Rail and Garden Room
The last week has been a long process of moving and sorting all the bits and pieces stored in the old workshop and moving it all into the garage. We…
Ripped Out old shelves and walls coverings
we spend the day ripping out the old shelves and the flimsy wall coverings. We got a fire going in our incinerator to get rid of the hardboard and other…
Shelves
Today we sliced up 10 sheets of 18mm OSB boards into a whole collection of shelves! We planned to have 600mm deep shelves for our boxes on the right side…
Light Levels – final conclusions
we did some more illumination tests and discovered that the reading is now 325lux, a drop of about 5lux after we have painted the ceiling with the Absolute White. We…
Utility Rail backing strip
We put in the 100mm wide strips into the back of the Utility Rail to cover up the glass wool. We will use shoulder dresser hooks or in other words…
Paint Glorious Paint!
The final coat for the ceiling was put on this morning! The special flavour paint came yesterday and we collected it from Jewson, called Dulux Absolute White! It is stated…
We Have Lights!
All ten tubes are up and installed right around the Light Channel in the large front room of the Garage. Each T5 tube produces about 5000 lumens as stated on…
4 out of 10 Tubes done!
The electric cables (mains and control lines) are in place inside the Light Channel. Four of the 10 tubes are installed. A light switch is wired in beside the internal…