To all our readers, sorry for the delay in updating the blog recently. Excuses aside, you should now expect regular updates... This post will hopefully bring you back to the present!
We finally received Building Warrant Approval in April. This is really excellent news as it legitimizes all the work so far and the work we plan to do.
The major change we had to accept is that the upstairs area cannot be officially classed as living space, due to "activity space restrictions" and therefore has to be classed as a "storage loft". We still plan to make it fully accessible by a staircase, and ensure it's a nice space for all the storage...
On the progress front, we had a Hatton Garden style drilling man (with an awesome Hilti core drill) come and drill some holes in the granite where we will fit extractor fans, 40mm kitchen waste pipes and vents.
Jaimin has spent lots of fiddly time getting the eaves water tight and as wind proof as possible using tape and a membrane. This was taped to the rafters, the top rail of the stud frame, and the underside of the sarking. See below - the white sheets in the eaves photo..
He then tackled the flooring in the eaves, (also below) which were also fiddly. This is probably going to be an overused term when talking about the eaves. This was done on both sides, obviously.
One of the tricky things was to cut (or "rip") along the length of the boards which were just too wide to fit in the final slot in the eaves. Here is a geeky related video which Jaimin made (sado) on his own when he was "building":
The next job was to comply with the structural drawing by inserting some vertical posts under the bathroom rafters - seen below.
The electrician has done a survey and identified that everything was in order except for one missing feed wire, which we ran. Everything else is ready to go apart from the plumbing which is on the list. So - enough was put in place for the next stage of: insulating.
We finally received Building Warrant Approval in April. This is really excellent news as it legitimizes all the work so far and the work we plan to do.
The major change we had to accept is that the upstairs area cannot be officially classed as living space, due to "activity space restrictions" and therefore has to be classed as a "storage loft". We still plan to make it fully accessible by a staircase, and ensure it's a nice space for all the storage...
On the progress front, we had a Hatton Garden style drilling man (with an awesome Hilti core drill) come and drill some holes in the granite where we will fit extractor fans, 40mm kitchen waste pipes and vents.
He then tackled the flooring in the eaves, (also below) which were also fiddly. This is probably going to be an overused term when talking about the eaves. This was done on both sides, obviously.
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| Eaves floored all the way to the cantilever post. |
The next job was to comply with the structural drawing by inserting some vertical posts under the bathroom rafters - seen below.
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| No roof falling in on your head in this bathroom. |
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