Building Inspector Approves Preparation for Floor Slab!
Our Building Inspector came along at lunch time and spent a few minutes looking over our DPM plastic, sticking up pipes and how it was all stuck together. He said…
Concrete Deflector for Top of Perimeter Walls
We finished off the day’s work by building a deflector to control the sloshy concrete being poured onto the top of the Perimeter Wall. The walls has hollow columns and they are…
Day 2 of Assembly of Cells Framework in Floor Slab
We completed the Assembly of the cellular framework in the rest of the Floor Slab, namely the Entertainment Room, Bedroom 2 and then Bedroom 3 and Utility Room. We then…
Floor Slab Cells Assembly – Day 1
Today, we started assembling the wooden dividers which go across the whole Floor Slab from the sections we made last week. We have done the Great Room and the section…
Floor Slab Dividers Cut and Ready
While it was wet outside, we continued with making pieces of the cellular framework matrix that will divide up the Floor Slab into lots of rectangular regions so that no…
Day 4 of Setting in the DPM over Ground
Today, while we waited for the rain shower to clear up, we sliced up loads of strips of OSB left-over from our foundation shuttering, down to 100mm wide, and these will…
Day 3 – DPM All Down and Ready for Floor Slab .. Almost!
Today, we finished off laying down the plastic sheeting over the ground. We completed the strip over the Entertainment Room and Bedroom 2 which was fairly difficult with the array…
Day 2 of Laying DPM down for Floor Slab
We carried on with the task of laying the Damp Proof Membrane (DPM) plastic down on the ground inside our perimeter wall of our house. We now have completed and…
Continuing with DPM and Final Levelling of Ground
With an interrupted morning, we carried on with the laying out of the DPM plastic sheeting across the whole ground area of the building. We covered up the Great Room…
Checking Items off List Before the Floor Slab is Poured
Today, we carried on with the preparation jobs to be done before the concrete Floor Slab is poured. We made a list of all the tasks that has to be…