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 .