Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 311Jun 06, 2021 3:09 pm Yesterday was another really cold morning. With a fog that hung around for a few hours it meant the white house on the hill blended with its surroundings . I made a 07.30 start but didn't want to make too much noise until after 8 so as not to tick off the neighbours (the nearest are over 300m away but sound carries on still mornings here.) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ With more timber I did some more work on the West end facade. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Haven't made the box beam for the container end so held off doing the timber work over the doorway. From behind: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Today another 07.30 start.I welded angle brackets to the containers and coach-bolted them to the facade studs. More over-engineering, but I really don't want the facade overhang to fall! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Then I cut insulation foam to a couple of sections of the front: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And then affixed 19mm plywood over the top. This will be the base for the vertical timber slats I plan on putting here. It has some moisture in it from a little recent rain so when it dries out I will give it several coats of Estapol to protect it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Not sure how, or what I'll use yet for this. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ .And that's pretty much where I got to today! Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 312Jun 20, 2021 4:24 pm No post last weekend - it was a holiday long weekend and I took a break from working to visit the grand kids. With Covid restrictions, I hadn't been able to see them for a year, so it was nice to get a break from school and building (but at 6, 8 and 10 years old they are exhausting!!) and it was a 500km round trip. So not a huge amount of progress since my last post. First off - I put up some ply bracing on the west end facade. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ From the back: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Then I cut and installed the lintels over the 4 big windows. The steel strapping is to stop them sagging before I can put the 19mm ply over them, which will make them sturdy. I may even throw in a few jack studs to make sure! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I had to scrounge around for some 90x45's to finish these. The timber shortage is really beginning to bite. No one has any 90x45's. I had to resort to buying 2 lengths that looked like this: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Of course Bunnings was happy to sell them for full price! I'm getting close to being able to attach the facade cladding panels - there is just a little bit of form-work to do, mainly on the back side of where the facade meets the roof. Plus the flashing. So this is the current state - there is still a box beam to go in over the west end opening, and then the rest of the battening. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I'm taking this Monday and Tuesday off teaching (as the kids are doing my head in!) and then after Friday there are 2 weeks of school holidays so I'm hoping to get a lot more done on the house. Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 313Jun 27, 2021 3:55 pm Monday and Tuesday were unpleasant weather-wise - drizzly rain which made it difficult to be outside using power tools. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Spent most of my time at the house making my own reveals for the big windows. As they are of an atypical size I decided to make them from 19mm structural ply. The front of the house gets the brunt of the bad weather so the ply will be more resistant to the elements than the pine reveals sold at the hardware store. I managed to make three sides of three of the windows before I ran out of ply. More is being delivered tomorrow. (Along with my Tasmanian Oak tongue and groove flooring which I managed to get for $40 per sq, metre!! An amazing deal - way cheaper than engineered vinyl flooring.) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The sills will have a downward slope to facilitate rain run off. This weekend the winds have returned so I added a bit more bracing ply to the west end shed and replaced the bracing timbers as the wind had managed to push this part of the facade a little off vertical. I will leave these attached until I put the cladding on which should make the structure really sturdy. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And I finally decided to take action on the neglected veggie garden. I've done nothing with it since the end of summer. I would like it to be ready for a spring planting, so I need to start getting it back in shape. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Now the school hols have started, I hope to get quite a bit done. Til next weekend.... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 314Jul 04, 2021 3:37 pm This week I mainly worked on and around the main windows. Continued with the ply facing but used a lot of my insulation off-cuts to fill the voids around and above the windows.In some places I was able to get it double thickness. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Then I tackled the sills for the four windows. A bit fiddly to put in but I'm quite happy with the result. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And I finally have the front double entry doors installed. This was quite tricky and took me the best part of yesterday to do. Getting the spacing right was difficult as well as positioning the reveals as I want the doors to be as close to flush with the facade ply as I could. The doors are set back about 50mm. They will eventually have the same surface treatment as the ply. I quite like the teal colour of the undercoat the doors came with! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Today (despite the winds) I started putting fibro on the West end shed. I only managed 2 sheets as all four of my batteries for my cordless drills died. So they are now home being charged for tomorrow. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 315Jul 12, 2021 4:14 pm That past week flew by. Despite the temps dropping to as low as minus 7.2 - I continued to get out to the house around 7.30 each morning. But progress is not as noticeable this time, just several small projects. First thing I did was to make and install the final box beam for the facade and add the battens on the west end. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I also finished the cladding for the shed at this end: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I am still waiting for timber to add the noggins above the shed and to lay the roofing tin. The inside of the shed has been lined with ply. Next I put up the cladding on the kitchen side of the east end shed; Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The corner moulding was the most fiddly art of the whole job!! Then I gave the facade ply and both shed claddings 2 undercoats. (I added a 5mm gap between sheets on the sheds to mimic the shiplap joins of the rest of the house) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Haven't undercoated the front of this shed as I couldn't sand back the epoxy filler over the screw holes (flat batteries again!!) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ There are still 2 small strips of ply to add either side of the front doors (I am still waiting for my timber order - 4 weeks tomorrow since I ordered it.) But then the facade is ready for me to install the cladding sheets. Excited about this. And on Saturday I stopped to check another piece of roadkill and found this in mum's pouch: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ She is now with WIRES being cared for. Back teaching today (pupil free day) - I've been asked to fill in for a teacher til the end of the year who works Tues-Thurs. This means 3 regular days of paid work and 4 days off a week to work on the house. A good balance I think, plus I get to teach in my subject area rather than any and everything! So no house building this week until Friday. Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 316Jul 24, 2021 3:24 pm Horrible weather continues. High winds most days makes outside work difficult or impossible depending on what I need to do. It's also overcast every day, cold and miserable. Not outdoor working weather at all. No major building work done since my last post, just fiddly little stuff like painting, small bits of cladding, noggins etc - I did manage to grab some 90x45's that the Big Green Shed just happened to have in while I was there for something else. It gave me enough to continue working on the west end shed. Both facade ends now covered. When I can sand back the epoxy screw hole fillers (and the joins) I can paint them. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Managed to get one sheet of roofing iron on - the winds were really starting pick up by this stage and it became to dangerous to continue. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And framed up the awning outside the main bed door. I'm thinking of putting corrugated polycarbonate over this to allow light to filter down. Not sure yet. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ That's about all I achieved - doesn't seem much. And tomorrows forecast isn't looking too promising either!! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 317Aug 01, 2021 4:36 pm Last Sunday was abysmal - I would have welcomed a little snow. Instead it was rain, incessant high winds and freezing cold temperatures. Monday was no better. So little outside work achieved on those days. Tues-Thurs was my teaching job, and Friday was a glorious sunny calm winters day (what it usually is in winter!!) Then yesterday began calm but by 11am the winds picked up. Today was a repeat of yesterday but add rain. So this miserable winter drags on into its third month. I did manage ,to find a calm window to put up the remaining corrugated iron onto the west end shed roof, plus the cladding on the wall above it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I also gave the shed a second undercoat, as well as double undercoats on the facade ends. Then I finished the 2 panels of ply either side of the front doors, filled and sanded the screw holes and gave them 2 layers of undercoat. But forgot to take photos! This morning I whizzed up to the hardware store at 7am and bought a stack of decking boards and screws, and some much needed 90x45's, and just managed to get the floor between the kitchen and the east end shed done before the rain started. I'm hoping tomorrows weather will allow me to do the deck around the west end shed. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ But as they were rained on I will have to wait for them to dry out before I can oil them. Tomorrow is meant to be calm all day but an 80% chance of some rain. Then Tues to Fri the awful winds return 🤬 Roll on Spring!! Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 318Aug 08, 2021 4:14 pm I know I've been moaning about the weather but OMG it's starting to really tick me off! Over the last 4 days I've had off from teaching, the weather forecast predicted rain or patches of sun with strong winds for the first 2 (nothing new) but today and tomorrow -"mostly sunshine and no wind." Well....I waited from 07.30 this morning until 14.40 - not even a suggestion of sunshine, instead drizzle and low cloud! So it's been a matter of doing what I can when can. I was able to paint 2 undercoats above the west shed, and lay the west end deck and give it 2 coats of oil, as well as oiling the east end deck which I put down last week. (The blue skies below don't show the presence of winds with gusts over 70kph). Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ West end: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ East end: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The colours will match when the new decking has aged a few months. And this is a pic of the 2 panels either side of the front doors that I did last week: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I've also been experimenting with the vertical slats I want to apply to the ply on the facade - like a vertical decking. I'm playing around with different width timber slats and gaps. Using both SketchUp (left side) and actual test pieces (right side). I'm planning to use a stain call Japanese Black. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I'm thinking the 50mm strips make the front look too busy and the 75mm ones work better. Still undecided!! And finally when I can't do anything else I have gone to the veggie garden to try and get it back into shape for a Spring planting. Once it is all turned, I will apply some horse manure and dig it in and then leave it a few weeks before planting. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Tondelver House - Shipping Container Build 320Aug 11, 2021 6:36 am Yes the wind is the worst part of the bad weather. The rain has been mostly drizzle but even that makes using power tools outdoors impossible. I wouldn't mind so much if the rain turned heavy and poured down for an hour or two - but endless light misty rain doesn't even help much with drought recovery. The winds are just a headache - I'm waiting to start the installation of the facade panels, but I need windless still days for that.As you say - winds make that hazardous. But at least I can use the unpleasant weather periods to knock the veggie garden into shape ready for Spring. 1 10654 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 19752 hi guys. Please be nice. First time home builder in Qld. I would like some feedback please on whether I should build my granny flat first before my main house at the… 0 5239 |