Cladding Battens are affixed to Walls
We got on with the work we left standing on Saturday, which is putting up the cladding battens onto the walls, ready for installing the Larch cladding. We proceeded by…
A DIY Selfbuild by Stephen, Shaun & Daphne
Construction of External Skin of House: External Walls, Roof and Skylight. Slate tiles on roof and timber cladding on walls.
We got on with the work we left standing on Saturday, which is putting up the cladding battens onto the walls, ready for installing the Larch cladding. We proceeded by…
After skipping Monday for other commitments, we got on with making doors and ramps for our three entrance ways in our main house. We finished off the Front Door, putting…
At the start of the week, we needed to make sure that we had all the required cladding support battens in place, especially around the drainpipes. The cladding needs something…
This week, we created a machine to slice up our pile of random insulation sheets (which can be up to 150 mm thick) and started putting them into the walls…
After our Christmas and New Year celebrations, we resumed work this week with the outstanding task of sealing all the cement boards covering the walls of the house. We resumed…
With Christmas fast approaching, with various interruptions occurring, we had only managed to do a couple of days of work. We got on with the task of sealing all the…
After our conclusion of the slates on the roof (the front porch section) on Monday, we finished dismantling of all the remaining platform modules apart from two full height modules…
On this very chilly Monday morning, and a bit of the afternoon too, we finished off putting slates on the last section of roof, the “C” section which is our…
After finishing dismantling the excess platform modules and the lift hoist shaft, we got on with the task of preparing the Eves, ready to be painted. But the week saw…
We are working on a design for a house banner, located over our front door porch facing our Loke. We want to cut the design into our slates and then…