Cladding

Finally, we have the redwood cladding!
It's been such a head ache and has caused huge delays. There were heaps of dead knots in the batch of logs and we couldn't get the long lengths we needed. The guy milling it sourced some more logs, milled them, kiln dried, and off to the machine shop to get the grooves cut in them.
So we have just received the first lot of boards, while the rest will be a few days (probably weeks) later.
Since last time I have got the roofing on the carport, windows are in, door frames are installed, eterpan cladding around the carport is on, and pergola and deck framing is done.

All wrapped up

It's been a while since my last post. We have it all wrapped up and the purlins are up on the carport. Big thanks to Dad for helping me with the purlins. Was hoping to put the rest of the roofing on over the carport & storage in the weekend, but didn't quite get there. Will put that on this weekend as Steve is away this week. Man it sucks having to wait till the weekend to work on the house.

You can just see the 2° incline of the roofing over the living area

Hi dad.

Ready for roofing now

Some of my scribbles to the engineer

Roof Shout!

Finally got the roof on. We put it on over Friday & Saturday. Who needs rafters or trusses, this roofing just sits straight on the wall frames. Easy as.
Thanks so much to Wes, Paul, Luke and our new neighbour Richard for the help over the past few days and giving us a lift - you guys are awesome!

For those who care, the roofing is profiled metal on top, flat metal on the bottom, and a 150mm thick polystyrene core. Each sheet is 1m wide and links together just like regular roofing on top (one rib overlaps the next sheet) and tongue and groove at the bottom. It's normally used as roofing and cladding for cool store rooms, so it will keep us nice and warm.

The underside will be our finished ceiling, so no gib, no stopping, no painting, and the insulation is built it - job done.

All the panels delivered in a 40ft container

Last chance for a selfie on top of the frames - don't tell OSH

Good thing you've got that safety harness Steve - It's a pretty steep roof...

Living areas done

The family on the mezzanine

More frames

Some of the wall frames are up for the bedroom area. Now is the time when I find out if I've got the windows and doors in the right places.

Frames

We finally have some wall frames.
It's been a while - hold ups and a whole bunch of other orders in at the same time at the manufacturing plant meant we didn't get them last week as expected.

It's starting to look like a house now!

               Tea at the site...

So this is the living area on the north of the house. We should have some of the bedrooms done tomorrow if the manufacturing plant has them ready..

Roofing panels are in the container and on the ship from Auckland and should get here Monday or Tuesday.

We have a floor

Very exciting day yesterday. At 1:00 we just had all the bearers fixed and ready to go. By 2:30 we had a whole floor!

And the sun came out just as the truck arrived with our cross laminated timber floor slabs from XLAM. The whole house consists 7 panels. The largest two over the living area are 13m long.

This will be the finished flooring.

All done, and I gave it a coat of polyurethane last night to protect it from moisture.

Bring on the wall frames!

Concrete slab & bearers

We are ready to get the timber floor slabs down tomorrow. Concrete slab is done and bearers are all in place.

This is Steve, our builder. He's awesome. Great job with the concrete floor bro.

And here's josh, Steve's younger brother.

We like to be site safe, so only those who can balance on the bearers can walk out on them.

... Oh, and good work Katrina!

Ground work

Just over a week ago we concreted the piles in and dug out for the concrete slab.

So we have a few piles of dirt...

And today we have the steel frame concreted in

Really want to get the concrete slab poured tomorrow. Hopefully the weather is good!