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Garage Progress

Further progress on the garage project – second gable now almost fully clad and ready for painting. In fact, I was able to get another hour on this yesterday and the right end triangle has also been clad so just the left triangle to go 😉
It’s always good to see another phase nearing completion.

Of course with no contractor to complain to – its all down to me and any volunteer helpers that come forward. Getting the bit in the picture done was possible in one session due to my son in law Richard how came and spent the morning working with me. It makes so much difference if you have a co worker 😉 Thanks Richard!

Garage Progress

I have been busy on the garage from time to time of late – but this weekend progress is significant. I spent all of Saturday cladding the gable. You can see below that this is all but complete 😉 I just have the thin wood straps to apply which cover the joints to compete the job and then of course paint the whole area.

The proportions of this photo are a bit strange!!!! The garage looks less tall than it is!!!! Must be a foible of Blogger when uploading photos which are proportioned taller then they are wide.
No worries though – I am sure this is acceptable as a status update 😉

Off to Rio for a few days on business ( ash cloud permitting )and then Pentecost in in the Park next weekend so there will be no garage progress for at least a week and half 😉

Garage Progress again

I was able to spend a couple of hours last evening working on the garage and as you can see the lower level cladding is almost done. Next work session will be on Saturday morning and I expect to complete the cladding at that time. Of course I still have to do the upper cladding as is very clear in this picture! The good news is that this will be done with 150 mm wide sarking boards which means that progress will be much faster. So watch this space 😉 Actually I still have to finish the eaves on the garden side – so I may just do that before starting on the upper cladding !!!

Garage progress

Well its been a while since I posted – but I have been busy putting in about 1 – 2 hours each evening after work on the garage. The builders were able to come back and lay the floor despite the awful weather at the time – that was a couple of weeks ago and we now have garage which feels much more like a garage with a floor that you can walk on 😉

Since then I have been working on the external cladding. Two walls are now fully clad now and yesterday evening I almost completed the walls around the main door. As you can see in the photo below I still have one wall to complete which should be fairly easy and quick to do!

In the mean time we have had the birds trying to set-up home in the garage 😉 Fortunately I have now managed to get all the “bird access spaces” covered in.


Last evening – 20th April we had snow again!!!!! Fortunately just a few showers which and the slow did not persist this time!!!

Moving into the garage!!!!!

No not me!!!!

A bird started to make its nest inside the roof of the garage – I really need to get the eaves sealed up!

It’s not that I don’t like birds of course – but I can’t have them nesting inside the garage and making to sort of mess that birds are good at making 😉

I should really post a new photo to show the current state of progress of works!!!