External Wall Completed – Day 4
In glorious sunshine, we finished off the final wall sections to complete the circuit of the whole house. Wall’s “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”, I.e. the Front Door and Entertainment…
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.
In glorious sunshine, we finished off the final wall sections to complete the circuit of the whole house. Wall’s “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”, I.e. the Front Door and Entertainment…
We started the day in lovely hot sunshine .. but only for about 2 hours this morning before it got cloudy and chilly. We continued working on assembling and building up…
In a very misty like sprinkle of rain, we started the new week by continuing with the erection of the External Wall, doing wall “M”, wall “N” and wall “O”,…
It was a long 9 hour day minus a 45 minutes lunch break and also a little “tea” break too! We continued with the assembling of the External Wall using…
With a slightly shortened work day, we started assembly, adjusting and building the External Wall of our house at last! The first job was to adjust each and every Leg…
Today, we started off in the workshop to build the combined Top-Plate for Wall “E” which has another extended beam coming out to support the porch we got hanging over…
Today, on a chilly and windy day, we took the timber that had already regular slots cut into them, and sorted and cut them for the Top-Plate of the External Wall.…
This afternoon, we glued and nailed the last “wing” onto our pieces we made yesterday to produce the completed Corner Posts at last! This finishes off the long job…
On this bank holiday Monday, we carried on with the creation of the 12 Corner Posts for the Perimeter Wall. First of all, we set up the circular saw to…
Today, we took all our sawn up lengths of the 89mm CLS timber, and marked them up to make sure we had the correct end as the top of the…