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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…

Build Progress Conservatory Great Room Phase 5 Ventilation System

Extended the Ventilation Ducting for the Conservatory

Aug 9, 2023 Shaun

We spent this week building and constructing the rest of the ventilation ducting that connect the Conservatory to our Air Con system. We had built the lower half that went…

Build Progress Orders and Procurement Phase 5 Skylights

Taking Measurements and Getting Quotes for our Triple Glazing Windows in Skylight

Jul 26, 2023 Shaun

We spent the last three days measuring all our Skylight windows so that we can send off for quotations for creating triple glazing units. Now that we have built our…

Build Progress Great Room Phase 5 Rafters Roof

Built a Temporary Working Platform

Jul 22, 2023 Shaun

We spent the last three days in building a temporary working platform, right across the Great Room so we can access the rafters and get them filled up with insulation,…

Build Progress First Floor Phase 5 Rafters Roof

The First Floor Roof Rafters All Filled With Insulations, All Covered in OSB!

Jul 20, 2023 Shaun

We only needed these last couple of days to finish off covering up the plastic vapour barrier membrane with our 11mm OSB boards. We completed the “J”, then the “K”…

Build Progress Building Control Phase 5

Visit from Building Control to Inspect What We Have Done

Jul 12, 2023 Shaun

We had a letter in the post a couple of days ago, asking whether we had completed our build yet. It had been several years since we had an inspection…

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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