More Progress.

Roof insulation is in place. The plastic is to  1. ensure it stays there for now, and 2. stop glass fibres shedding on me while I varnish the walls.

My next jobs (door surrounds aside) are window and door architraves and do the ceiling linings.  I'm  not sure whether I can do the ceiling on my own; the boards are 5.6 metres long and wobbly. It was difficult enough fitting them vertically (using foot, hip, or elbow to hold stuff in place while I got it to fit together) but working over my head will be a different challenge entirely.  Experience so far has suggested it will need three people, so I will need to be both clever and dextrous to even attempt it on my own.

The architraves are going to be challenging as none of the windowframe corners are square.  If I'd realized sooner how far out some of them are I'd have put packing in appropriate places behind the window frame liners. That in itself would have been an interesting challenge.

Maybe I'll get some polyurethane on the walls instead.

At least now there is working (LED) lighting and sockets from which I can power heaters if I work at night.

Doesn't work at night

I'm really excited that we seem to have the interest of our prefered builder to take on our house build. He's currently on a really big project which could take another 10+months but I'm prepared to wait. Slowly slowly things are progressing.

Last Thursday I dug out a foundation area for the water storage tank for the cabin (2000 litres).  This week I need to get a trailerload of crusher-dust and compact that in and level it.  Then I can pick the tank up in Blenheim, stand it in place and get the spouting delivering water into storage. Yay for water on site…