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More fiddly baling Published: April 17, 2021Spent the day doing more fiddly triangular sections - the top of the western wall, and the top of the…Continue reading »A bit of high baling, and a stud frame… Published: April 14, 2021Baled the fiddly triangular bits at the east end of the house, which I think is my least-favourite part of…Continue reading »Some more baling Published: April 13, 2021With the rain going away again, I could get stuck into the last wall to be baled - an 8.5m…Continue reading »Random rainy day Published: April 11, 2021Too much rain around today to consider baling (especially on one of the most exposed walls), so we did other…Continue reading »House Baling, Day 3 Published: April 10, 2021Slightly random day - I put a post up on FB inviting any of my friends who were interested, to…Continue reading »House baling, day 2 Published: April 8, 2021Another day with my two favourite workers - the weather has been very nice for the last week, but there's…Continue reading »House: Baling day 1 Published: April 5, 2021Had a couple of willing workers for the last day of the Easter LWE, so we made a start on…Continue reading »Prepping for baling, and swearing at my architects… Published: March 31, 2021A couple of days working on the second half of the framing, now that I have a roof to work…Continue reading »Roofing weekend Published: March 28, 2021Dragged together a group of family & friends to do the last big lifting task - getting the rest of…Continue reading »All the trolley things Published: March 24, 2021Have giant trolley, will repurpose to carry anything else you need to move: It's now a haycart. 😀Continue reading »Panel moving… Published: March 20, 2021In order to get my driveway back, I needed to move all these ridiculously long panels down to the house.…Continue reading »….and my driveway disappears again Published: March 19, 2021Hello panels, goodbye driveway. A few mates are coming past tomorrow morning to help get these down to the house…Continue reading »Roof lifting day, from the air Published: March 16, 2021Nearmap randomly happened to be flying an update on the day we raised the first third of the house roof:…Continue reading »Ross’s house Published: March 14, 2021The random guy who came past my build and picked that I was doing strawbale on the basis of my…Continue reading »Diggy diggy hole Published: March 14, 2021My marri slabs were finally dry and out of the kiln, so I arranged to get my favourite toy for…Continue reading »Chopping up some timber… Published: March 7, 2021Waiting for the second half of my roof panels to come in, so I got started framing the outer walls…Continue reading »Darned kids… Published: March 1, 2021....get off my lawn!Continue reading »House Roof, Part 1 Published: February 28, 2021Day 1 Righto, time to levitate some of the panels currently taking up my entire house slab, and put them…Continue reading »Windows Published: February 18, 2021Meanwhile, my shed windows arrived! The frames and glass units came separately, which I wasn't expecting and complicated picking it…Continue reading »House frame – steelwork Published: February 14, 2021The last main bit of the house frame was the steel post in the corner of the living room windows,…Continue reading »House roof – pre-wiring Published: February 9, 2021My sparkie had some....residual unhappiness....about wiring the house roof panels - I'd avoided this in the shed by simply not…Continue reading »More inside rendering Published: February 7, 2021Got the first coat onto three walls of the inside of the shed over the last few days: Back wall…Continue reading »House roof panels Published: February 1, 2021Where did my slab go? I'm sure it was here earlier, but now there's just piles of SIPs all over…Continue reading »A door! Published: January 24, 2021Fun afternoon tweaking the door frame for the wet-area access from the east side of the shed, to fit a…Continue reading »Inside rendering Published: January 21, 2021Short, fast and tough bit of rendering, working on the inside back wall of the shed. Didn't take us very…Continue reading »