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More internal walls Published: December 29, 2021A couple of brutally hot days post-Christmas, with one spent cladding the plant room and pantry (with plasterboard, because these…Continue reading »Dog fencing Published: December 24, 2021Rather warm day getting the dog fence started, to keep the muppet where he should be. I'd acquired a bunch…Continue reading »And yet another door… Published: December 19, 2021Put together the plant room doors, just to get the hole closed up. These aren't pretty by any means -…Continue reading »Some more doors Published: December 12, 2021Had some extra hands today, with another potential builder offering some labour in return for picking my brain about things.…Continue reading »Solar panel installation, take 1 Published: December 4, 2021The last job before I could close up and stuff the remainder of the internal walls was to install the…Continue reading »Internal plumbing Published: November 19, 2021The plumbers descended on the block today, for the first time since....I think it was when they did the sewer…Continue reading »Rendering: 2nd coat, inside Published: November 16, 2021I've also been chipping away at the inside 2nd coat - keeping on with my 5-6 mixer loads/day and getting…Continue reading »Windows! Published: November 16, 2021Been installing windows, with a mate for extra hands and good ideas, over the last couple of weekends. It's a…Continue reading »Rendering: House, outside, second coat Published: October 30, 2021With the shed(s) dealt with and the ATU online, next on the list was a whole pile of rendering (yay!)…Continue reading »ATU online! Published: October 19, 2021In the end it got done a day early - ATU guy dropped past yesterday to run the piping, since…Continue reading »More shed demolition (and cleanup) Published: October 17, 2021Destroyed the rest of the framework with the recipro and then attacked the slab. The left side of the shed…Continue reading »Shed demolition Published: October 10, 2021With the new shed locked up, I could get started on....knocking down the old shed! Because apparently you CAN have…Continue reading »Shed doors Published: October 10, 2021It's been a few weeks, but that's because I wanted to do this in one post rather than talking about…Continue reading »More window photos Published: September 19, 2021The installers had finished the job in my absence, so there was some nice finished windows when I got there:…Continue reading »First (house) windows Published: September 15, 2021I'd decided to get the big stacker doors, and the highlight windows, in the living room corner installed by the…Continue reading »Making sawdust! Published: September 14, 2021For something different - finally got to use my machines! Started work on the main doors for the shed, for…Continue reading »Window delivery Published: September 13, 2021So the living room is kinda cluttered now: Will take me a while to sort out this mess. 🙂Continue reading »Sorting out the shed (and the container) Published: September 8, 2021After giving up on getting my sea container delivered, I hired a moving van for a day and did three…Continue reading »Inside rendering! Published: August 22, 2021Finally time to start rendering the inside of the house! Knocked off a couple of sections of the living room:…Continue reading »Yet another wet day Published: August 21, 2021....but at least they're getting farther apart, with some glimmerings of sunshine in between. Did some more wall-stuffing: ...while the…Continue reading »Framing with lasers Published: August 19, 2021I keep finding new ways to abuse this laser, it's the BEST toy. I wanted to put a left-over piece…Continue reading »Container woes Published: August 9, 2021I've had a 20' sea container full of my woodworking gear and timber collection gathering dust in a container yard…Continue reading »Cram walling Published: August 7, 2021Trying my hand at cram-walling again - I really like the idea of having all the walls rendered, rather than…Continue reading »Shed rendering, 2nd coat outside Published: August 5, 2021A couple more sessions with R from down the road - he decided that weekends should be spent in his…Continue reading »Random extra window framing Published: August 1, 2021I'd had this problem rattling around in my head for a fair while - the baseplate at the bottom of…Continue reading »