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Oh! found my new 5m Stanley tape measure yesterday, it’s been awol for two weeks after being used for only two days. It’s in the red circle! I left it on the roof batten and tiled over it. :( Think if I put a magnet on a string I might be able to feed it down through the join in the...

Another day, a bit more accomplished. Last of the insulation went in to the roof void yesterday, that’s the loft finished for now, can’t decide yet whether to run the dust extraction ducting in the loft and drop down to machine or run it along the ceiling In the workshop and down. Thoughts...

I bought a paslode 350 just for the build and I will sell it afterwards. I have used it at every stage and on a built like this I think it’s going to be hard work And a lot less accurate without one. I used 90mm for the framing, 51mm to fix the OSB (every six inches is a LOT of nails), 63mm to...

This will be taped and filled then painted as dry wall. The theory being when we sell the house this would be usable as a workshop or home office. If wanted for a clean use like home office, it wouldn’t cost a fortune to convert by having it skimmed at that time to completely freshen it up and...

Excellent progress, my bricklaying is also painful, but those corners look tidy. =D> This will now become an all consuming project, thoughts Watching TV, dropping off to sleep thinking the next step, you tube videos for building practices like watching ****. The garden going to the dogs...

A new day, and it’s raining, good excuse not to work in the garden. So I was excused duty and allowed to play. The overnight rain was hard and it has been on constant for several hours, perfect to test the integrity of the roof. I took a torch into the loft space, and whilst I wasn’t...

Same here, during my workshop build I put three or four click and collect order a week into Screwfix, they are superb here and only a three minute trip away. Monday I had four orders put in over the course of the previous day, I kept adding bits as I remembered them. when I turned up, they...

A hiccup in the system today. To make insulation easier, I decided to work from the other end and put the vapour barrier over the first two rafters in the dirty room, I could then insulate the second bay from the eaves by standing on the step ladder through the third bay, then put the poly...

They are in a chase in steel conduit in the insulation, so effectively enclosed. I’ll check with the electrician if he wants to put them on a 20A circuit. I’ve plenty of spare ways in the consumer unit if that’s what he wants to do. Thanks for pointing it out.

Hi Pete, yes there is a sheet vapour barrier between the two. I had to install it in two pieces as I just couldn’t handle the whole length at once. I’ve got pics of that as well I’ll add later.

Back to a working project rather than playing around with fiddly bits. The plasterboard and roof insulation turned up at 11am, on a 30 tonne lorry that had no chance of access to the property :( :( I was expecting kerb drop on an eleven tonner and handball to the pavement, where I could...

Well done getting it done despite not having best working conditions. Looking good.

To save diverting the thread here, here’s a link to the =P~ foundation laying pictures there’s more out there if you use the topic as a search in google.

A local building project finished their foundation concrete pour yesterday, forty nine thousand tonnes!! The last bit was 12,000cu yds gonna need a big tarp for that.

Guess who’s not going to get any sleep tonight with all the excitement. :D Looking real good.

Fireproof all over for consistent look. I had to do fireproof for the first metre. That would have to be two metres to the door jamb, then the door, that left another metre to the house wall. It wouldn’t look right having one side of the door different to the other, same for the back. The...

Yes, the fiddly bits, even fitting a simple door lining, fixing it and hanging the door took three hours. Guess I’m being too fussy sometimes, but I’ll know where the bits are that aren’t just right and they will always bug me. It’s quite satisfying doing three or four smaller jobs rather than...

Almost out of materials till the plasterboard arrives on Thursday so only a couple of small jobs done. Guttering temporarily fitted to the rear drain in case the rains come tomorrow. I managed to get a door lining for the middle door, so this is now installed, sealed, and the door hung...

The workshop externally is 9.2 metres long on gable wall, two ends at 3.9m each, 2.4m high on ends, gable is 4.4m to ridge, nothing on house wall. I bought 100 lengths of 3.6m Hardie Plank, with trims and vents came to £2055 20 sheets of fireline plasterboard was £220. Area covered is circa...

That is where our authority stands, and the need for the fireline plasterboard internally as well as cement cladding externally to at least one metre from the boundary. So I’ve gone fireline cladding on all walls and Hardie Plank all round. It’s added £1200-£1400 to the materials cost, but at...