Replaced Caterpillar Tracks on mini Digger
We discovered a couple of days ago, at the weekend, that one of the caterpillar tracks had split and ripped half way across. We can see rusty steel wires sticking…
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.…
Rain Water Underground Tank Brought Into Operation
Today was a wet day so we decided to work on another task. Something that we could have done much later but we felt that we could make use of…
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…
Sun Shield Covers Corridor and Cold Water Header Tank Inspected
Today, we reinstalled our usual Sun Shield over the long corridor of our temporary living quarters. It was quite late this year, perhaps we got used to the heat coming…
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…
All Larch Timber Scorched and Chemical Dunk Trough Built
The last two weeks saw the completion of scorching all the Larch cladding timber. A total of 596 planks of varying lengths from 3metres, right up to 5.7metres and different…
Scorching Machine is Complete
It took another three weeks to finish off tweaking the design of the scorching machine, with many iterative changes as we test and adapt the machine (As usual things take…