My empire of dirt...

[Chizel - Founding Father]

Thought i would get the bulk of it buttoned up today but as always there was a few curve balls. Bit of rot in the doublec4x2's the are onto top of the bearers on the external wall.
When doing the piles/floor it wasnt possible to see it and the internal 4x2 was fine.
So i had to chop that out, fortunately the bearer underneath was solid.
Got the top and bottom plate in and a few studs but that was it as the pub was calling.
Literally,.. the have a small job for me to do this week.
Ive tuesday and Wednesday off this week so will hopefully get the doors in and some cladding on.

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

Nice bit of rot here. If i wasnt putting in new doors and re- cladding, you would never have seen it as it looked fine from inside and the cladding was solid outside.

 

[Noobie]

 

[CAT3]

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Nice bit of rot here. If i wasnt putting in new doors and re- cladding, you would never have seen it as it looked fine from inside and the cladding was solid outside.

An odd place/position to get rot though ! How's that happened ?

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

An odd place/position to get rot though ! How's that happened ?

Its where the lengths of cladding meet.
Instead of the joins being staggered and metal soakers used, all the boards meet in a bottom to top vertical join and are covered by a length of timber and some scribers.
Id say at some point in the past that had been leaking and then repaired as it looked ok.

 

[Laava]

No its the before photo but i shall do my best to replicate it to keep things real.... its actually an economical way to build, no need for a tape mesure or level and use as least fixings as possible. Im even reusing the really rotten bits of timber so we dont lose that aroma of an old house...

That's the spirit!

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

For reasons i appear to have this week off work. All good! Well, apart from no wages..
Anyhu, yesreday i carried on with the framing on the wall. Was a bit of a pain as the timber for the wall was also being used to prop the house up!
Had to mess about a bit , put what studs i had in then remove a prop, use it as a stud, remove another pro ect.. managed to turn a simple job into a bit of all day event.
Tbh i was in no rush and had the fire going for 7 hours and was constantly chopping up timber and feeding it.
Got about 80% of it gone.
The embers still hot this morning, i throughsome wood in before i went to the cafe and its blazing away again.
Now its fucken raining.
I need to get some cladding cut and primed so i can fix it later today but its oil based primer so need to be in the sun for a good 3 hours really .

 

[Gimlet]

For reasons i appear to have this week off work. All good! Well, apart from no wages..
Anyhu, yesreday i carried on with the framing on the wall. Was a bit of a pain as the timber for the wall was also being used to prop the house up!
Had to mess about a bit , put what studs i had in then remove a prop, use it as a stud, remove another pro ect.. managed to turn a simple job into a bit of all day event.
Tbh i was in no rush and had the fire going for 7 hours and was constantly chopping up timber and feeding it.
Got about 80% of it gone.
The embers still hot this morning, i throughsome wood in before i went to the cafe and its blazing away again.
Now its fucken raining.
I need to get some cladding cut and primed so i can fix it later today but its oil based primer so need to be in the sun for a good 3 hours really .View attachment 163757View attachment 163758View attachment 163760View attachment 163761View attachment 163762

There's a massive spider climbing up your chicken shed. Must have swam across from Straya. Get it smacked with a shovel.

 

[Noobie]

You'd have to be over 6ft to see of them windows dude. I can't see painted windows catching on unless you are turning it into a church

 

[Laava]

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You'd have to be over 6ft to see of them windows dude. I can't see painted windows catching on unless you are turning it into a church

Fuck me that's a great idea!
Hollerluyah!

 

[Dox]

Fuck me that's a great idea!
Hollerluyah!
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Chiz'll be able to claim back teh VAT on his building products if he makes it a church!

Imagine...the 'Church of Chiz - no kiddy fiddlers allowed, or anyone from Holmfirth'

 

[Laava]

Welcome to the temple of chiz! See you next tuesday!

 

[Dox]

Welcome to the temple of chiz! See you next tuesday!

Amen Brother Laava!

 

[Noobie]

Praze de lord and de baby jeezus.

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

Well this got real weird real quick!

 

[Gimlet]

Chiz'll be able to claim back teh VAT on his building products if he makes it a church!

Imagine...the 'Church of Chiz - no kiddy fiddlers allowed, or anyone from Holmfirth'

Might be able to in Kiwiland. Not on Britain. Rachel Thieves has abolished VAT exemption for church repairs, meaning more of our historic scared buildings will fall into disrepair and be sold off. Probably become mosques,.

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

Last week and over the weekend i got the doors in, cladding on most of that wall and burnt the last of the crap.
Stupidly, i had left a section fo the old cladding on where the french doors are in the master bed. Id finished all the trim around the doors as well.
When i put the new cladding on, it made that are look so shit, that and the amount of workstill left to sand up, fill and paint that area made me decided to rip it off and put up new.
So more shit to burn and trims to re-make for around the doors.
Worth it though i think. You live and learn.
Yesterday was out getting materials and making a start on the trims. Also waterblasted a coulpe of sections of fence in the afternoon. Tmpretty sure mark said he built the fence 30 od years ago. It look like it but im absolutely amazed how nice it comes up!
Today im back on the trims and will start punching nails and filling stuff.
Im hoping the weather plays ball as id love to get some paint on as much as possible as winter is closing in fast.

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

Well apart from a few cracking days the weather has been largely shit for the last few weeks. I manged to get the boards that i undercoated and fitted last year sanded up ( the weather had fucked em up a bit) and covered in plastic before the rain came.
They sat like that for about 3 days then it was take the plastic down, do a few hours work then put it back up overnight. That went on for about 3 days befor i got em primed, filled and undercoated.
Also got the metal flashings above the windows and doors, had them made up about a year ago but other jobs took priority.
Got the trims around the windows and all scribers on and now everything new is pretty much ready for gap filling and top coats.
Got 1st top coat on the walls on the new patio door side and really like the color.
Last weekend b's parents came to visit with only about 4 hours notice so Saturday, a beautiful sunny day, was lost to frantic cleaning up.
The plus sides of that is its much nicer to work in, good to get things packed away for winter and i waterblasted all the shit n dust off the de k so its not blowing into my new paint.
Sum pics befor i head to work.

 

[Noobie]

The bigger doors look fantastic bud. Even the chooks like them. Either that or she's offering herself as a sunday roast

 

[Chizel - Founding Father]

The bigger doors look fantastic bud. Even the chooks like them. Either that or she's offering herself as a sunday roast

Yea man, the doors are ace! They look the dogs now b has cleaned the glass.
One of our best buys i think. We paid a grand for em but tbh the toughened glass alone would cost that. They needed a fair amount of work but no where near as much as the other joinery.
They are a perfect size for what we are doing internally and let in a load more light.
All they need now is a final top coat, the new draft strips fitting and a keep for one of the shoot bolts. Bit of a shit, found a company the stocks em but they wont sell the keep separate. Its 65 bucks which aint huge money but the keep would only be like 10% of the brass involved.