Exterior Larch Cladding and Oak Frames Cleaned and Oiled
In the glorious sunshine, while it was far too hot indoors, we decided to start one of our Summer job now. We needed to do some serious maintenance to our…
The Last 8 Oak Covers Created and Installed
Following the initial progress we made on sorting out the Oak timber last Saturday, we resumed to produce the Octagon Covers for our seven inside corners to hide the plastic…
Oak Covers Created for Nine Outside Corners
The last 9 days or so have been spent on processing a pile of Oak timber pieces and generating nine finished covers to hide the cut ends of the Larch…
All Walls Done At Last! L, M and N Sections Completes the Cladding Job!
We Have Done It! The whole house is now fully clad with our Larch timber! It took only a day and a half to finish off the last bit, the…
Big Complex H wall Now Complete Plus I, J, K and O all Done Too!
By Monday lunch time, we had finished off the last triangular piece of the wall above the Utility’s window and door, the gable wall of the Porch. We then moved…
Cladding Second Stage – The Fire Treated Larch Timber for the Back of the House
We started the new week by moving the remaining oiled standard planks to storage in the swimming lane. Then we started processing our second set of Larch timber that had…
Front Porch Wall is Clad plus also Walls D and E too
Upon the resumption of the new week, we got on with the task of cladding the Front Porch wall, the “C” section that has the main house door and Entertainment…
Larch Cladding Progresses, P2, A and B Sections all Finished
We resumed work on putting up more Larch cladding planks on to the wall sections “P2” and “A”, coming around the Great Room and along the front of the house.…
Templates Created and Larch Planks Starts Going up on Walls
At last, we can actually see the Larch cladding timber going up on our walls this week! But first, we made a couple of templates; a lap joint cutting guide…
First Set of Larch Timber Dipped in Fire Retardant Liquid and Second Set Dipped in Oil
This week, we finished waterproofing our dunking trough, with two layers of thin plastic sheeting we found in the shed and then covered over with a left-over length of our…