Knocking a house down

[GarethM]

I hope that was a group blowing up arrangement!. Like a bukka thing 

[peds]

On 16/01/2023 at 14:36, GarethM said:

I hope that was a group blowing up arrangement!. Like a bukka thing 

I think I was supposed to be a bunch of grapes originally, if memory serves. Didn't really work with multi coloured balloons though, so the costume naturally transformed as the evening progressed.

 

Anyway, half of the house roof is felted. It's like swimming through treacle because apparently some of our design choices aren't entirely conventional, but we are getting there.

 

 

[GarethM]

I'd hate to even guesstimate the number of insulation sheets you'll need for the roofing!.

 

Saw a great video the other week for how he fitted them practically air tight using a cutting jig etc.

 

https://youtu.be/jaTWMUuTWnI

[peds]

On 25/01/2023 at 19:19, GarethM said:

I'd hate to even guesstimate the number of insulation sheets you'll need for the roofing

Only just saw this reply, sorry. 

Yeah I'd hate to as well, so I'm just thinking of other things for now and ignoring that bit until we get to it. Seems to have worked at every other stage of the build!

 

I keep meaning to do a more thorough update of this, because the foundations were a particularly interesting process and I'll have to share some pictures of that one day. But here's where we are now. 

 

It's been a long month, but 98% of the cladding is now on, and the scaffold is coming down on Monday. 

 

 

Delivery itself was a pretty hectic day because the crane was supposed to have been collected a month ago, but they just left it sitting there. I was going to start charging rent for the driveway, but then the corrugated fibre cement cladding sheets showed up.

We had just lowered the first bale of 14 sheets onto the top deck of the scaffold when the driver showed up to take the crane away, but there were still 9 tons of material parked in front of it so he pretty much had to help us at that stage. He's happy enough, he's paid by the hour anyway, and I gave him a bottle of wine and a few notes for his trouble.

 

 

 

The dog was thrilled to finally be able to go upstairs for the first time ever, after I upgraded the ladder to the temporary stairs.

 

 

Roofers did the roof, a pair of stout fellas and I did the walls. Heavy buggers, the 3m sheets on the shed are 50kg, but the 2.75m sheets on the house roof and walls are only 44kg.

 

 

 

It's graft, you've got to manually position these things and lean your weight against them while screwing them in. It's easiest with 3, good enough with 2, and tediously slow as just 1, but you can wrestle them into position on the ground floor and prop them up with a couple of wedges.

 

It's easier when it isn't snowing horizontally. 

 

 

 

Only got 6 left to put up, a little triangle on the shed gable. Corner shapes and holes for the doors and windows are cut with a concrete blade on an angle grinder. The roofers made their holes with a Stihl con saw, and I was pretty jealous.

 

After the cladding comes a load of barge and corners, then I'll start thinking about gutters and window flashing. 

 

[peds]

There we go, that's all 200 of the bastards up on the house. Not the hardest thing I've ever done, but definitely not the easiest, either.

Next I'll be focusing on the corners, flashing, and trim to tidy up all the edges. Scaffold comes down on Monday. 

 

 

[Macpherson]

On 25/01/2023 at 19:19, GarethM said:

I'd hate to even guesstimate the number of insulation sheets you'll need for the roofing!.

 

Saw a great video the other week for how he fitted them practically air tight using a cutting jig etc.

 

https://youtu.be/jaTWMUuTWnI

 

Aye, I watched that myself a while back.. Great to see how it should be done👍