Doors, Decks, Wrapping, Vents & PC list….
The last of the doors went in, the front door! We have learnt you always start in the back corner and work out all your mistakes where it won’t be seen very often, so the front door is beautiful!
Our vent flap frames went in and our Steel guy Simon got the order to make the flap frames once we troubleshooted hinge thicknesses, tolerances and swing.
Wrapping the building in sarking and folding and installing flashing continued for waterproofing. We were told with 2 layers of MR Fyrchek we wouldn’t need a sarking layer, but after all this rain it was clear the Fyrchek was starting to break down and so we quickly got to sarking!
We ordered in more steel SHS structure to pack up our decks to enable us to have flush sills from the inside to outside. This makes waterproofing tough but with the accessibility standard of not being allowed to have steps bigger than 5mm and not being able to get stamp ramps to work well enough, we felt this was our only option! This detailing has been tormenting our heads, but… we think we have it worked out!
Our PC list gets finalised thanks to Grant’s ‘Plumbing 101’ lesson on a flight back from working in Alice Springs with Healthabitat with Bobbie. So handy to have an amazing, generous mind to question and challenge, thanks Grant!
Rick the builder continues to do Saturdays with us which is really helping us kick along with progress!
Check out the cartoon and month of picks below….
March 2022 Biography of a Build
Onwards and structurally upwards!
Love,
Dusty & Thirsty
We are taking note from The Grand Section on the value of documenting the journey whilst you’re in it by hand rather than just the final result by photograph.
At the end of each month we sit down and visually document the build journey of ‘Can’t Break Your Hip House’ up in Blackheath and the people who have been a part of that chapter. A great way to reflect on going-ons, small wins and lots of learnings
You can find further photographs on The Grand Section social media - instagram and facebook!