Starting to add the short studs between Lintels and Top plates
In the afternoon we started to cut and fix the short pieces of timber which fit between the lintels over windows and doors and the top of the wall. These…
Done a survey of the Steel frame position.
We started the day by measuring the distance from the steel frame to the walls at all hip and valley beam positions as well as selected other points. We wanted…
Last Door Frame is Done and All Lintels Are In Place
Today, under another glorious and hot sun, we finished off the final Door vertical framework (the Utility Room Back Door), which came out as 1041 mm to 1042 mm wide,…
Windows and Doors Framing Progresses
On this lovely warm Monday, we carried on adjusting, gluing and fixing into place the remaining six window subframes going around the Great Room, the Kitchen and lastly the Entertainment…
Windows Framework Being Installed
Today, after our lost day caused by the wet weather yesterday, we resumed our work of putting in the two vertical posts that forms part of the Window frame. We…
Friday Mostly Lost to Rain!
No work outside today as it was wet all morning and occasional showers in the afternoon too. Plus also we were only going to work until mid-afternoon because of other…
Window Frames Starts Being Installed and Cement Boards Goes on External Wall to Completes the Circuit
We had more rain overnight so we decided to leave off doing the last 2 sections of External Wall until the afternoon session. So instead, we started on doing the Window…
Cement Boards Stage 1 Almost All Done
We had an interrupted morning with the rain coming in, quite a consistent downfall, averaging about four millimetres per hour, for four hours, making a lake of water collected inside…
Cement Board Skin on External Wall Almost Done
In the glorious and very hot sunshine, we resumed the task of covering the External Wall with our 10mm thick cement boards. But first, as instructed in our approved structural…
Rain Stops Work
We discovered the rain was falling down when we wanted to start work on the new week, and the forecast had a high chance of more rain all day so…