All Walls Done At Last! L, M and N Sections Completes the Cladding Job!
We Have Done It! The whole house is now fully clad with our Larch timber! It took only a day and a half to finish off the last bit, the…
Big Complex H wall Now Complete Plus I, J, K and O all Done Too!
By Monday lunch time, we had finished off the last triangular piece of the wall above the Utility’s window and door, the gable wall of the Porch. We then moved…
Cladding Second Stage – The Fire Treated Larch Timber for the Back of the House
We started the new week by moving the remaining oiled standard planks to storage in the swimming lane. Then we started processing our second set of Larch timber that had…
Front Porch Wall is Clad plus also Walls D and E too
Upon the resumption of the new week, we got on with the task of cladding the Front Porch wall, the “C” section that has the main house door and Entertainment…
Larch Cladding Progresses, P2, A and B Sections all Finished
We resumed work on putting up more Larch cladding planks on to the wall sections “P2” and “A”, coming around the Great Room and along the front of the house.…
Templates Created and Larch Planks Starts Going up on Walls
At last, we can actually see the Larch cladding timber going up on our walls this week! But first, we made a couple of templates; a lap joint cutting guide…
First Set of Larch Timber Dipped in Fire Retardant Liquid and Second Set Dipped in Oil
This week, we finished waterproofing our dunking trough, with two layers of thin plastic sheeting we found in the shed and then covered over with a left-over length of our…
All Larch Timber Scorched and Chemical Dunk Trough Built
The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…
Scorching Machine is Complete
It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…
We are Weather tight! All Window Frames installed and “glazed”
Continuing from Wednesday, with the guttering job done, we got on with installing our oak window frames. Over the next three days, we took each frame, test fitted it (making…