Shredding Machine Mark 2
Yesterday and today, we built a second generation shredding machine. Our first one had a motor failure because we overdid it. The motor wasn’t rated for continuous use and it…
Loading Up the Rafters With Insulation
We finally restarted our building work on our house again, after several months of rescuing our Financial Crisis caused by the soaring runaway energy prices. We had the delivery of…
Fermacell and Plasterboards Arrives
Yesterday and today, both at 9am, saw the delivery of another major supply of building material, this time, the finishing wall and ceiling surfaces for our house. The fermacell is…
Forty Pallets of Foam Insulation Rejects is Delivered
We started at 8am today to get everything ready for the arrival of forty pallets of insulation foam boards that have been rejected by various factory or reclaimed from various…
Walls Are Constructed
We started working on constructing the Walls inside the Entertainment Room, now that we have done the floor. The concrete block walls are a bit (well actually up to 15mm)…
Main Electricity board Upgraded and House Connected
Today, Tuesday, we had our local professional electrician come around to upgrade our main Electricity Supply Board, first to install a fused cut-off switch immediately after the meter. The original…
Starting on the Entertainment Room
While we still wait for our cheap insulation foam rejects to arrive, we got on with doing the Entertainment Room, which is our last ground floor room that we haven’t…
85 Sheets of 11mm OSB and 50 Sheets of 18mm OSB boards
We had a delivery of additional sheet materials to add to our store of 11mm and 18mm OSB (oriented Strand Boards). We could calculate what we have left to construct…
Second Half of Great Room’s Floor is Finished Including Ducting and Pipes Underneath
We started the second stage of building the flooring for the Great Room by fetching down from our upstairs timber storage, 10 nice straight pieces. We then marked the 600mm…
Part Two of Great Room Floor Construction with Air, Sensors and Water Installed and Floorboards Laid but not Fixed
We started the second stage of construction of our Great Room floor construction, by continuing the task of putting all the various utility pipework snaking around under the floor. We…