The house wot Juffy built
Finally time to start rendering the inside of the house! Knocked off a couple of sections of the living room: and the little bit over the front door, which I’d finally gotten around to meshing yesterday. I swear I’d mowed this wall a couple of times, but I probably should have mowed it again before starting, it was a little fluffy. Spent a bit more time doing dropsheets than I did on the shed, and pulled them out as part of cleanup (rather than letting…Continue Reading “Inside rendering!”
….but at least they’re getting farther apart, with some glimmerings of sunshine in between. Did some more wall-stuffing: …while the dog looked on, quite unimpressed with the whole thing:
I keep finding new ways to abuse this laser, it’s the BEST toy. I wanted to put a left-over piece of LVL into a wall to mount a sliding door to (if it’s like the rest of the things I build, it’s going to be a bloody heavy door…), but I wasn’t confident of getting it level if I did my usual technique of making up the piece of wall flat on the ground and then raising it. Next-best plan was to make up the…Continue Reading “Framing with lasers”
I’ve had a 20′ sea container full of my woodworking gear and timber collection gathering dust in a container yard for the last couple of years. With the interior of the shed done it was time to finally get it delivered and start filling the shed with fun stuff. Me: Hello, please can I have my container delivered to this address?Container People: Sure, here’s an invoice.*pays*CP, day before delivery: BTW, we actually asked our truck drivers and they said no we won’t deliver it. Your…Continue Reading “Container woes”
Trying my hand at cram-walling again – I really like the idea of having all the walls rendered, rather than a mix of render and conventional smooth gyprock. Armed with my sister and a big roll of chicken wire, got stuck into the wall between the master bedroom and the hallway/laundry. Quickly discovered an unexpected benefit of 450mm stud spacing – you can stretch chicken wire along the wall, then go along and drop single biscuits between the studs. A bit of massaging and it…Continue Reading “Cram walling”
A couple more sessions with R from down the road – he decided that weekends should be spent in his own garden (and fair enough too!), but he could drop past on his way home from work and render until dark. Tried it out to great effect one afternoon and got the other half of the front of the shed done – the only downside was that with me doing high stuff and R on the ground, my ladder always seemed to be bloody inconvenient….Continue Reading “Shed rendering, 2nd coat outside”
I’d had this problem rattling around in my head for a fair while – the baseplate at the bottom of the corner post, between the big windows, is much wider than the post itself. Since it sticks up about 30mm above the slab I needed some way to build the post out to be as fat as the baseplate, so the windows have something to fix into. Ended up with a combination of brackets welded to the column, a timber outer face and timber blocks…Continue Reading “Random extra window framing”