The sarking is now on. The velux windows have increased from 4 to 7 and the soffits are in place and painted. 21 July 2007
Sarking
The roof is starting to take shape with the sarking being added on. You can see the holes for the velux 19 July 2007
Now with added gables
The gables with their eaves have been added along with the bridles for the velux windows in the roof. And it's still dry... 18 July 2007
Walls and roof trusses on
The walls, compound beams and roof trusses are now on. It looks like a house. 17 July 2007
Walls and gables
All the structural timber and walls are now on the site and built. The gables are being made today with the lintels being added later out of c25. Roof trusses got delivered also. 12 July 2007
The first walls
The wall sections with their vapour proof membrane have started to arrive on site.
10 July 2007
Floor set
07 July 2007
Floor pour
9 cubic metres is used for the pour. Neil Robbie and Gus are here smoothing it off with wooden and steel floats. The phots is 2 hours after the pour and you can walk on it in 5. It will take ~6 month to full go off. 06 July 2007
Pressure testing
The manifold has been filled and pressure tested so the pipes are then lifted on spacers so they site within the screed. 04 July 2007
Heating manifold
Each heating circuit is piped back into the manifold prior to pressure testing. The midges were very bad. 01 July 2007
Laying the underfloor heating
This will be a structural slab of 10 cm reninforced concrete. There are 600m of heating pipe to be layed in 7 circuits tie wrapped every 40cm. 01 July 2007
