Extra Large Sliding Saw
The other piece of equipment we made while we waited for this day, was to build a special chop saw table to cope with slicing these I-Beams. Their physical size,…
Installed Dozens of Conduits and Pipes through the External Wall for Future Expansion
At the beginning of the three weeks waiting for the arrival of our First Floor Joists, we sat down to analyse all requirements of providing connections to the outside world…
Glass Wool for External Walls Delivered
Our Glass Wool insulation we ordered last week has arrived today. The delivery truck parked in our local Tesco Express (after asking the staff inside the shop for permissions) and…
Ground Floor Walls Structure All Finished
We continued the task of putting up reinforced wall posts for the hanging toilets for the cloakroom and for the en-suite of Bedroom 3 where we had to put down…
First Floor Joist I-Beams Quantified and Ordered
After a week of calculating, analysing responses and digesting options, we have finally placed an order for a collection of Joist Beams to build our First Floor support. There are…
All the CLS Planks Moved Indoors and Ground Floor Walls Is Going Up
We have resumed our task of building up the Ground Floor’s walls, at least, the structural framework structure using our 63mm CLS timber planks and over the last eight days…
Rebuilt the Utility Room and Its Shelves
Whilst tidying up the house of the insulation foam rubbish, a new set of shelves was created to provide more room for tools and parts to be on hand for…
Massive Tidy Up of Mountains of PU Foam left-over Cut-Offs!
In the course of filling our exterior walls with rigid foam boards, which get a huge “mountain” of left-over cut-offs pieces, some fairly regular in shape but many just simply…
Exterior Walls All Fully Insulated with PU Foam Boards
By Thursday, after a couple of delayed days due to icy cold weather that would have stopped the gun foam from working properly, we finally finished installing the 200mm (on…
Utility Room reorganised and First Solid Wall built
We needed access to the sections of the exterior walls in the utility room to get the insulation boards in, we are currently storing tools there. So today, Thursday, on…