This week it is the turn of the Concrete Beams and hundreds more of the concrete blocks to be hoisted up and laid out to form the roof of the Entertainment Room’s internal sound proofing shell. The first job was to construct a lifting hoist location where each individual 120kg beam is lifted up and […]
Very very early Friday, with all the alarms waking everyone, we staggered up to get ready for the arrival of the glass which could arrive as early as 8am! What we are expecting is as follows: Nine large units, each weighing 118kg Two medium units weighing 75kg One slightly smaller one weighing 65kg. We had […]
On Monday, we resumed work on the M section of the roof. The first job was to cut, trim and seal the fibre-glass trough module to fit the top of the valley and while the resin was curing, put up more slates. After lunch, the modified third piece of the valley trough was fitted and […]
Today, at the start of a new week, under a wet cloudy chilly sky, we finished putting up the tile battens on the M section of the roof, all before lunch time. After lunch, we started putting up the slates, going up the valley and in the three or so hours of the afternoon, we […]
Here is a video of our roof being covered up with 12mm thick plywood sheets, starting on the “A” roof section and going around anti-clockwise and finishing on the “P”, right back at the starting point. We spent a total of 21 days in total (this includes two half days), so about 42 man-days of […]
We had a slow start today as we had a series of short sharp thunderstorms and showers with a twirling strong breeze so didn’t get going until about 11am. We did as much as we could on the “P” section of the roof on this side of the “Q” roof (the section facing backwards towards […]
Today, with it being just slightly cooler than yesterday, we started working on covering the roof along the back of the house. We decided that because we could access any part of the roof along our walkway, then we did several complete jobs in one go, for example, we went along to drill conduit holes […]
We resumed the work of covering our roof with plywood boards and we got the last complex rhomboid shape made and fitted up to finish off the “G” roof segment. Then, carried onto the “H” roof section and put up another six sheets of plywood, half of them had angled cuts on the end to […]
With a slowly improving day with the Sun breaking out, we moved the mobile platform around the corner to start work on the “F” section of the roof. This is a relatively small area to do and we had almost finished it before lunch at 1pm. That was quickly finished soon after lunch and we […]
In better weather we completed the boarding of Sections D & E. We are getting better at cutting boards the correct size first time. We have now covered 140 square meters of roof which is 38% of the total in 7 days so we are on schedule to finish in about 20 days… Stephen fails […]