I’m
loosing track of time and I don’t think it’s got anything o do with age, over
the past two or three weeks a crane with forks on the front came and unloaded a
truck of plaster board, lifting it up to the scaffolding at the front balcony
where the plasterers slid it off into the lounge sheet by sheet. They have to
use a crane for this activity, as the long sheets apart from being very heavy
are just too long to get up the stairs to the upper level, a similar amount was
manoeuvred into the garage for downstairs.
External rendering has also taken place
over the last couple of weeks although they still have a little area to finish
at the front once the triangular window is installed. In a nutshell, rendering
over the special building foam cladding consists of an application coat of
specially mixed cement render engulfing a fibre glass mesh mat that looks a bit
like bird cage wire, following this they apply an acrylic based top coat containing
a grit compound to give the desired render finish depending upon which grade of
compound has been selected. Later it will have a couple of coats of paint the
colour we previously selected. Apparently the whole process, foam and render
results in a very strong, waterproof cladding that is straight and true and
well insulated, the foam being 75mm thick at least, and reasonably dense much
like the foam boxes they transport veges and seafood in only thicker. In
addition to this the wall cavities between studs and noggins on the inside of exterior
walls are all packed with fibre wool (pink bats) for additional insulation and
sound reduction, while they were at it we had the walls and ceiling insulated
between in our bedroom.
Plaster installation on the inside of the
house has been completed other than the cornice piece (that is the curved bit
where the walls meet the ceiling). They seem to have an expert for each
application, two people put up the sheets of plaster-board walls and ceilings.
Then another couple did the taping and filling of joints and nail locations,
yet to come are others to install the cornice and finish those. After all that
is done another team come and sand all the filled areas smooth and flat, then I
guess it’s ready for the painters although I imagine they can’t start until
skirting are installed and that can’t be done until the timber floor is laid.
Gee I‘ve got a lot of supervising to do!!!
Plumber came yesterday and installed
downpipes etc and today the foam guys are back applying sealants around all of
the windows, joints and cavities to ensure everything is watertight, (so it
won’t sink). Chippies are back today and will probably be here to completion,
they’re currently hanging doors and finishing soffits and will complete any
jobs that require scaffolding while it is still in place.
I’m busy replacing hose clamps on the
Toyotas power steering in a process of elimination to stop air ingress into the
system, a power steering specialist told me the noisy growling in my steering
wasn’t Nancy having a go at me but was air getting into the system. If the hose
clamps don’t do the trick the pump has to come off to replace ‘O’ rings, $$$$.
Just changing hose clamps is a hell of a job, who would be a mechanic, you have
to half strip the car from underneath to get a look at anything then you can’t
get your hands into where you want to and everything is always behind something
else, bugger of a job. Without taking hoses off and losing all of the oil it is
a nightmare trying to get the old sprung clips off, under the car crap falling
into your eyes and you can’t reach it anyway. Wish I was rich.
I have to go and finish the job I started SWHTBO has
informed me the car is required.
Stay cool
Nigel
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| Lifting in the plasterboard |
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| Ceilings first |
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| Applying the render |
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| Mixing render |
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| Nothing like modern equipment |
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| Plasterboard well under way |
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| Internal insulation and soundproofing |
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| Front view most of the rendering completed |
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| Back view completed rendering |
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