Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum 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. 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