Beast from the East MkII Hits
Today, we had a large amount of extra snow dropping on top of the small amount we had yesterday, to make deep drifts of up to a foot deep, window…
Driveway GeoGrid Plastic Modules Arrives for resurfacing the Loke
Today, the first pallet of these plastic grid modules that helps retains the gravel and other crushed stony material has arrived. We ordered one pallet which has 260 individual modules.…
New Wall Hanging Toilet and Frame Arrives for Evaluation
Today saw the arrival of our new toilet and wall frame! We wanted to see and learn all the construction requirements for these wall-hanging toilets designs, like how the cistern…
Christmas and New Year Holidays Break plus Recovery from Health Issue
We are having our usual Christmas and New Year holiday break again this year but also taking time off for one of our work crew to recover from an minor…
Remaining Pillars Installed for Corners and Kitchen Wall Framework Finished
For our last week of work for 2020 (and also before a long break because of Christmas and a minor medical issue), we went around the last twelve Pillars across…
Second CLS Layer Laid Down, Analysis and Mapping of Wall Structure and Building of Pillars
For the start of the new week, we both tidied up all the “blobs” of mortar sticking around all the footplates and also tightened all the remaining concrete screws down.…
Entire Ground Floor’s Rooms are Mapped Out and Footplates Installed
We resumed the task of laying out the footplates for the entire Ground Floor rooms. We had to tidy up all the excess jumble of bits and pieces that used…
Laying Out Footplates for Kitchen, Bedroom 1 and Great Room
After doing other tasks and chores for most of this week, we started on Friday afternoon, the task of mapping out the shapes of the Kitchen and Bedroom 1, with…
Second Delivery of CLS Timber Arrives
Our remaining timber arrived Thursday yesterday late afternoon. There were 348 planks in this second delivery, adding with our previous one of 99, we now have 447 planks of 63mm…
Tidy Up and Replace Lighting Units Plus Installed New Camera System
After skipping the first day of the new week because of some appointments, the next three days we went around tidying up the house after we had finished the Entertainment…