More semi finished images

Sunny May

These images are dedicated to Tomomi.

Exterior cladding II

The last picture I could take before the camera battery died on me. The fabric getting in the way is a temporary screen while we assess our curtain options.

Exterior cladding

Using the timer function on my camera I took a picture every 30secs of the charring of the cladding for the ground floor.








17 photos which works out at about 8 minutes for 13 boards.

Some semi finished images

One of my favourite things about the house is this accidental Z:

Front door clad in burnt oak

Lots of splitting due to some of the short lengths involved.
The burning started back in January

WE MOVED IN

The hardest days work on the project so far!
Thanks to everyone!

Handrails

Our lovely Scottish oak handrails ruined by the temporary plywood fall arrest...

Late at night - painting the timber floors

Again thanks to Paul!






and Neil! We are working 15 hour days this week as we have to move in on the 7th February 2009.

Finishing the timber

I've designed the upstairs floor to be light, in contrast to the dark ground floor and so we try out a few methods of doing this, before settling on a standard wood paint watered down 25% with paint thinner.




Bottom right is a test with beeswax for another part of the project.

The staircase gets clad in timber

Laying solid wood floor

Laying the floor turns out to be breeze thanks to one of the best tools we have used on this job:



The flooring handnailer.
The timber is Poplar, an increｄibly soft hardwood that I wouldn't recommend unless you take your shoes off like us.