Floor Slab Cells Assembly – Day 1
Today, we started assembling the wooden dividers which go across the whole Floor Slab from the sections we made last week. We have done the Great Room and the section…
Floor Slab Dividers Cut and Ready
While it was wet outside, we continued with making pieces of the cellular framework matrix that will divide up the Floor Slab into lots of rectangular regions so that no…
Day 4 of Setting in the DPM over Ground
Today, while we waited for the rain shower to clear up, we sliced up loads of strips of OSB left-over from our foundation shuttering, down to 100mm wide, and these will…
Day 3 – DPM All Down and Ready for Floor Slab .. Almost!
Today, we finished off laying down the plastic sheeting over the ground. We completed the strip over the Entertainment Room and Bedroom 2 which was fairly difficult with the array…
Day 2 of Laying DPM down for Floor Slab
We carried on with the task of laying the Damp Proof Membrane (DPM) plastic down on the ground inside our perimeter wall of our house. We now have completed and…
Continuing with DPM and Final Levelling of Ground
With an interrupted morning, we carried on with the laying out of the DPM plastic sheeting across the whole ground area of the building. We covered up the Great Room…
Checking Items off List Before the Floor Slab is Poured
Today, we carried on with the preparation jobs to be done before the concrete Floor Slab is poured. We made a list of all the tasks that has to be…
Organised The Utility Conduits and Pipes
Today, we tackled the task of digging and loosening all the various pipes and conduits that run from the Garage to the House, and get them all laid out to come up…
Day 3 of Installing the Underground Temperature Probes in and around the Energy Modules
We finished off the task of installing all the temperature probes’ conduits, around the two biggest Energy Modules, namely the one stretching across from the Kitchen, through the Hall and…
Perimeter Walls Measured and Drawings Updated
We had a bit of spare time today after we had completed the job of installing the temperature probes conduits around the Energy Modules so we spent an hour measuring…