Roof almost done
Today we only worked on the house in the morning and took the afternoon off because we had a meeting online to attend. But during the morning session we got …
Frame completed!
Today is day 8, the first day of the second week. In the morning I put the second two windows in while Beth measured and cut the surrounding frame pieces. …
The first window!
Today we finished off the extensions, and finished all the not-scassors then got the first two perlins on. We then did the door frame and window frames and got one …
Day six on the construction site
Today we first got the other 3.7 metre half of the thick 12.5×5 up and joined to make the main 7.4m roof support. And then we got all the roof …
Roof frame started on day five
Today the first thing we did was to get eight more 45’s made up and positioned around the top of the frame to make it stronger for all the roof …
The bent chickens come home to roost
Today is the forth day building (not counting pouring the cement and waiting for it to dry). We made good progress in the first half of the day getting all …
Frame underway
Today we got started early and went straight to work on the frame, we started by getting the two vertical 8×5’s in the middle done and got the mid height …
Foundation and floor finished
Today we got up early and got started while it was still cool, and we made some really good progress – we got the foundation finished and then got all …
Building started
The concrete has only been drying for four days, but we figured as long as were careful it should be ok! So we cut three 2.7m pieces of 5×12.5 (eucalyptus …
Foundation poles complete
We completed the foundations poles today, our third day back at the land. We wanted to get these done really early since we have to leave them for a week …