A couple of brutally hot days post-Christmas, with one spent cladding the plant room and pantry (with plasterboard, because these…

Rather warm day getting the dog fence started, to keep the muppet where he should be. I'd acquired a bunch…

Put together the plant room doors, just to get the hole closed up. These aren't pretty by any means -…

Had some extra hands today, with another potential builder offering some labour in return for picking my brain about things.…

The last job before I could close up and stuff the remainder of the internal walls was to install the…

The plumbers descended on the block today, for the first time since....I think it was when they did the sewer…

I've also been chipping away at the inside 2nd coat - keeping on with my 5-6 mixer loads/day and getting…

Been installing windows, with a mate for extra hands and good ideas, over the last couple of weekends. It's a…

With the shed(s) dealt with and the ATU online, next on the list was a whole pile of rendering (yay!)…

In the end it got done a day early - ATU guy dropped past yesterday to run the piping, since…

Destroyed the rest of the framework with the recipro and then attacked the slab. The left side of the shed…

With the new shed locked up, I could get started on....knocking down the old shed! Because apparently you CAN have…

It's been a few weeks, but that's because I wanted to do this in one post rather than talking about…

The installers had finished the job in my absence, so there was some nice finished windows when I got there:…

I'd decided to get the big stacker doors, and the highlight windows, in the living room corner installed by the…

For something different - finally got to use my machines! Started work on the main doors for the shed, for…

So the living room is kinda cluttered now: Will take me a while to sort out this mess.

After giving up on getting my sea container delivered, I hired a moving van for a day and did three…

Finally time to start rendering the inside of the house! Knocked off a couple of sections of the living room:…

....but at least they're getting farther apart, with some glimmerings of sunshine in between. Did some more wall-stuffing: ...while the…

I keep finding new ways to abuse this laser, it's the BEST toy. I wanted to put a left-over piece…

I've had a 20' sea container full of my woodworking gear and timber collection gathering dust in a container yard…

Trying my hand at cram-walling again - I really like the idea of having all the walls rendered, rather than…

A couple more sessions with R from down the road - he decided that weekends should be spent in his…

I'd had this problem rattling around in my head for a fair while - the baseplate at the bottom of…