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Shed rendering: final coat, day 3 Published: July 18, 2021Onto the hard stuff - high rendering, final coat. Hard to do this any way other than solo, since I've…Continue reading »More shed rendering! Published: July 17, 2021...it's almost like I'm trying to get this finished. Madness. Had R (of strawbale-house-down-the-road) fame dropping in for an afternoon…Continue reading »Shed rendering: final coat day 2 Published: July 15, 2021Managed to end up with a small render party for the day, with J & C joining dad and me…Continue reading »Shed rendering: final coat Published: July 13, 2021I've spent a couple of days experimenting with the final render coat on the inside of the shed - still…Continue reading »A bit more house rendering Published: July 11, 2021Taking advantage of a rare fine day in July, I finished off most of the north wall of the living…Continue reading »Winter strikes Published: July 6, 2021It's extremely wet in Perth. Thankfully the house's first coat is almost complete, so I've been able to dispense with…Continue reading »House roof flashings Published: July 1, 2021A couple of days' work to get the roof flashings up on the house. As part of the big update…Continue reading »Random wiring Published: June 30, 2021Some more fiddly bits - running some of the KNX wiring into the mounting plates (aka. a piece of the…Continue reading »Some more house rendering Published: June 27, 2021A few more short rendering sessions - back onto the plasterer's sand for sanity's sake. Did a few days where…Continue reading »Random bits of ceiling Published: June 20, 2021Rainy Sunday catching up on meshing the inside of the house with a couple of helpers, and ticking off a…Continue reading »House rendering Published: June 19, 2021Got stuck back into the house rendering - I had a couple of days of decent weather before another storm…Continue reading »2nd coat, shed (inside) almost complete Published: June 13, 2021Another couple of days' worth of rendering, with some help from friends & family, and the second coat on the…Continue reading »2nd coat, shed Published: June 7, 2021More second-coat rendering on the shed over the long weekend, with one day devoted to helping my sister plant trees,…Continue reading »Different rendering! Published: May 30, 2021Started work on the second coat of render on the shed, just for something completely different. One of my critical…Continue reading »Omnibus update 🙂 Published: May 23, 2021Oops - I thought it had been 2-3 weeks since I'd posted, but it's actually more like 6 weeks. Apologies…Continue reading »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 »