Some insulation, some destruction
Tuesday Nov 1
Take a load of cleaned plastic bottles to work. Spend morning finishing off some odds and ends of insulation in the bathroom. A truckload of Gib board ("sheetrock")turned up about 11.00 so helped unload that. Its all 3.8m lengths which is an exact fit for the wall stud but its a sod to handle, heavy and fragile. Its bundled in pairs of sheets which helps the fragility some but not the weight..
Started pulling the toilet apart and found I was unable to stop. Theres something immensely satisfying about tearing things apart. Disconnected and removed the toilet fittings. Placed the throne out in the middle of the back paddock for some later contemplative moments.
Tore out the lino and hardboard cover on the floor and tookoff the chipboard lining on the back wall. Opened out the fingerboard tongue+groove lining and found the bottom plate was cheese - I could poke my finger into it up to the first knuckle (admittedly I have short fingers). The end stud is about half gone from long term water damage. Easy enough to fix according to Pete but just as well I checked.
Removed about 20 liters of dead bees and bees nest from the toilet wall.
Took all the removed garbage out to the fire pile.
I cut off enough Retroshield to insulate the toilet when its fixed and used the last of the roll filling in pieces in the Master Bedroom.
Put my load (4 sacks) of plastic bottles in 2 stud widths in the office/study room- only 5 more to go. Estimate I would need about 5 times the amount of bottles to do all the walls of the house so probably just as well I'm not doing that..
Tacked up some foil wrap offcuts in case dont get enough bottles in before the room is gibbed. Pete reckons we'll be able to start the gib laying tomorrow and maybe frame off the ensuite
area as well. Decided that we can probably put a false ceiling above the linen cupboard for storage accessible from the laundry for a bit of added storage space....
Theres a nice view from the lounge through the dining room windows out to the sea in the distance.. Peter reckons he should have added an extra 10K to the house price for that feature (:-)
Take a load of cleaned plastic bottles to work. Spend morning finishing off some odds and ends of insulation in the bathroom. A truckload of Gib board ("sheetrock")turned up about 11.00 so helped unload that. Its all 3.8m lengths which is an exact fit for the wall stud but its a sod to handle, heavy and fragile. Its bundled in pairs of sheets which helps the fragility some but not the weight..
Started pulling the toilet apart and found I was unable to stop. Theres something immensely satisfying about tearing things apart. Disconnected and removed the toilet fittings. Placed the throne out in the middle of the back paddock for some later contemplative moments.
Tore out the lino and hardboard cover on the floor and tookoff the chipboard lining on the back wall. Opened out the fingerboard tongue+groove lining and found the bottom plate was cheese - I could poke my finger into it up to the first knuckle (admittedly I have short fingers). The end stud is about half gone from long term water damage. Easy enough to fix according to Pete but just as well I checked.
Removed about 20 liters of dead bees and bees nest from the toilet wall.
Took all the removed garbage out to the fire pile.
I cut off enough Retroshield to insulate the toilet when its fixed and used the last of the roll filling in pieces in the Master Bedroom.
Put my load (4 sacks) of plastic bottles in 2 stud widths in the office/study room- only 5 more to go. Estimate I would need about 5 times the amount of bottles to do all the walls of the house so probably just as well I'm not doing that..
Tacked up some foil wrap offcuts in case dont get enough bottles in before the room is gibbed. Pete reckons we'll be able to start the gib laying tomorrow and maybe frame off the ensuite
area as well. Decided that we can probably put a false ceiling above the linen cupboard for storage accessible from the laundry for a bit of added storage space....
Theres a nice view from the lounge through the dining room windows out to the sea in the distance.. Peter reckons he should have added an extra 10K to the house price for that feature (:-)
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