Roselea

Today, we resumed our task of nailing up the 10mm thick cement boards onto our External Wall framework. After bringing all the tools out for this operation, namely, compressed air…

 Today sees the start of the cement board skin being mounted on our External Wall framework. But first, we did some measurements of all the corners and also transferred the…

In glorious sunshine, we finished off the final wall sections to complete the circuit of the whole house. Wall’s “B”, “C”, “D” and “E”, I.e. the Front Door and Entertainment…

We started the day in lovely hot sunshine .. but only for about 2 hours this morning before it got cloudy and chilly. We continued working on assembling and building up…

In a very misty like sprinkle of rain, we started the new week by continuing with the erection of the External Wall, doing wall “M”, wall “N” and wall “O”,…

It was a long 9 hour day minus a 45 minutes lunch break and also a little “tea” break too! We continued with the assembling of the External Wall using…

With a slightly shortened work day, we started assembly, adjusting and building the External Wall of our house at last! The first job was to adjust each and every Leg…

Today, we started off in the workshop to build the combined Top-Plate for Wall “E” which has another extended beam coming out to support the porch we got hanging over…

Today, on a chilly and windy day, we took the timber that had already regular slots cut into them, and sorted and cut them for the Top-Plate of the External Wall.…

This afternoon, we glued and nailed the last “wing” onto our pieces we made yesterday to produce the completed Corner Posts at last!   This finishes off the long job…