Roselea

We started the new week, after completing our staircase in just four days, by fixing up the metal joist bracket to the stringers at the top of the stairs. We…

We started on our next task on Wednesday, to design, create the parts and then build the staircase, all in just four days! The first job was to get our…

To finish off filling in the outer walls, and to provide a vapour barrier too stop moisture getting into our timber elements, we proceeded to cover up the glass wool…

We spent a day or so making an air duct that will extract the hot air from the Conservatory. It needed to go inside the wall between the window and…

In preparation for filling and covering the walls we went around and planed off any of the plywood spacers between inner and outer wall posts which were sticking out from…

We spent these last four days putting in extra insulation foam boards over the top of all the doors and windows. We needed to do this first because when the…

We resume the week by collecting up the sand we had spread across the kitchen to dry and sieved it through the finest mesh we had and lugged up six…

Stephen nearly fell through the floor today! He was walking across the unfinished floor to fit a piece of plumbing pipe when he stepped on the edge of a small…

This week was a chop and change kind of week, working on lots of different elements that needed to be done before we can continue in laying down the floorboards…

It is very very hot outside today, we had to repair the tarpaulin that provides a sun shield over our long corridor in our temporary living quarter and also replace…