Building A Home

Chris has been away on holidays this week, and I've had the lurgi, so this was my first visit for almost a week. The last visit showed Ryan starting to work on the eaves, specifically cutting the rafters to the correct length and adding the timber (barge board?) to which the guttering will be attached. That's the pink (pre-primed) wood in these photos. And as quality builders, where the wood has been cut, it has been given an undercoat, to protect the cuts from detiorating over the years due to water. [My home in Seattle has some exterior wood painted on only the exterior surface, even though the interior would be getting quite wet over time. Replacing it after it rotted was, apparently, a maintenance item.] This is the view outside the south west corner of the house, looking east along the back wall.

Still looking east along the back wall, but from outside the laundry. And you can just see Garry to the left of the ladder. He was cutting and installing battens on the roof.

Looking south from outside the computer room. You can see some of the white undercoat on the end of the sloping timber.

There are more bricks - this is good! Hopefully the windows, or at least the ones for the garage, will be on site really soon, meaning the brickies can get to work on the garage, which in turn will allow the roof to be built over it, and thus the roof structure on the eastern side can be completed. This will make us all happy.

You can see Ryan in the corner; he was making a very awkward cut into one of the roof beams in the corner. It required a hand cut due to its position, and there was very little room to move the saw.

This is Bondek, the steel decking used to support the concrete deck on the porch while it sets. The longer lengths are for the eastern end, above the rain water bladder. They will be strengthened by 2 steel beams. The shorter lengths are for the remainder of the porch.

The bladder area (left) and the (sub) surface sump (right) located underneath the porch. The Bondek will be placed across this area, with the strengthening ridges running top to bottom in this photo (that's north - south). There will be a pump to automatically empty the sump when the level is too high. The brick wall dividing the two areas is to support the bladder.

The "missing" bricks in the corner at the middle top of the photo mark the location of one of the steel support beams for the Bondek. The beam will run from there off the left of the photo.

Eaves Appearing