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Build Progress Phase 5 Skylights Windows

Skylight Double Glazing Units – Part 1

Sep 30, 2023 Shaun

We started the new week by tackling the task of installing our new double glazed units up in our Skylight. We have twenty-two units to put up, 8 triangles and…

Build Progress Phase 5 Skylights

Sliced Off Dangling Metal Posts

Sep 23, 2023 Shaun

The first use of our new High Platform, that we built earlier in the day, was to go along up in the Skylight and slice off the small metal posts…

Build Progress Equipment and Tools Phase 5 Skylights

Decommissioned the Slicing Table and Converted it into a High Working Platform

Sep 23, 2023 Shaun

Today, after we have sliced up all the remaining foam boards yesterday, we proceeded to demission the slicing table, taking off the sabre saw that had been mounted underneath the…

Build Progress First Floor Phase 5 Tidy Up

Sliced up all the Remaining Foam Boards, Tidy up Generally and Moved the CLS Timber Pile

Sep 22, 2023 Shaun

We spent the day doing a whole heap of slicing up the last remaining heap of foam boards and chunks, chopping them down so that they are all a maximum…

Build Progress Fire Suppression Great Room Phase 5 Roof

Installed Water Microbore Pipes and Nineteen Nozzles – Part 2

Sep 21, 2023 Shaun

Over the last couple of days, we installed water pipes inside the roof of the Great Room, drilling 15mm holes through each rafters, located about a metre up the slope…

Build Progress Fire Suppression Great Room Phase 5 Roof Safety

Research in Different Kinds of Water Nozzles for a Fire Suppression System – Part 1

Sep 16, 2023 Shaun

We have been researching into what we would need to incorporate a fire suppression system, using spray nozzles to produce a fine mist of water droplets. We have found that…

Build Progress Great Room Phase 5 Rafters Roof

Surface of the Ceiling is Levelled Up and the Dormer has been Filled Up

Sep 16, 2023 Shaun

We spent three days levelling up all the “ceilings” of the Great Room. We wanted to make sure that the overall surface of each plane of the sloping roof is…

Build Progress Great Room Lighting Phase 5 Roof

Installed Various Lighting Conduits Inside the Roof Rafters

Sep 16, 2023 Shaun

This week, we have been installing a set of conduits for routing electric lighting cables to various hidden locations all over the ceiling in the Great Room. We wanted to…

Build Progress Great Room Phase 5 Roof

All Remaining ‘Seconds’ Insulation is Now Hiding into the Roof Rafters Above Great Room

Sep 5, 2023 Shaun

The final load of our third hand rubbish pieces of hard PU foam boards have been processed and most of it is now stuffed and glued into the roof rafters…

Build Progress Great Room Phase 5 Rafters

Creating a ‘Dormer’ for the Great Room

Sep 1, 2023 Stephen

We decided to add a ‘feature’ to the Great Room by exposing the rafters where they run in front of the Conservatory Extension Gable wall. We are going to continue…

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  • Home
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Design
    • Electricity
    • Energy
      • Solar Electricity
      • Solar Thermal
    • First Floor
    • Garage
    • Ground Floor
    • Ground Works
    • Roof
    • Site
    • Ventilation
    • Walls
    • Water
      • Rain Water
      • Sewage
  • Find Us
  • Pictures
    • Material Samples
    • Temporary Building
  • Plans
    • Structural Engineer Apr 2013
    • Groundworks September 2010
    • Building control May 2010
    • Planning April 10
    • Planning October 09
    • Planning August 2009
  • Tasks
  • Webcam Feed