The house wot Juffy built
Put together the boxes for the windows along the front of the shed today, which was relatively simple. The windows themselves are going to ‘float’ in the wall, sitting on top of (probably) three courses of bales, so the basic frame itself just needs a ‘plate’ on the top and bottom so I can strap it to the top & bottom plates: The crossbars on the plates are weirdly offset because they line up with the existing cross-pieces on the bottom plate.
Cut myself a LOT of the polyester strapping for compressing the walls – I need to do this before bolting the bottom plate down to the slab, because the straps have to go under the plate. Started rolling the straps up for tidiness and not-tripping-over things, but quickly realised it was going to take a few hours and it was something that could be done at home. Loaded the entire mess into the back of the ute, and spent some time this evening rolling them…Continue Reading “Strapping (young lads?), and walls”