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The Surf Shack!: Septics, Steve the plumber, roof flashing and final cladding
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Monday, June 14, 2010. Septics, Steve the plumber, roof flashing and final cladding. Luckily, the first earthmoving contractor I contacted had the perfect piece of machinery to do the job which fitted quite easily through the space available. Of course, we now also needed to call on the services of a plumber and we chose the inimitable Steve Larkman, also a local musician , who I had first met at the Great Southern Institute of Technology where I work. I must acknowledge here Michelle's fantastic contrib...
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The Surf Shack!: The back door, ceilings and internal frames
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Monday, June 14, 2010. The back door, ceilings and internal frames. So now all we need is to install a back door and and the project will have reached the milestone of lock up. Yee Ha! So all is looking pretty damn fine from the outside now so finally we are working inside which is a relief as winter is now upon us and finally our floor is protected from the elements. Although the ceilings are well over 3 metres at the highest point, getting the sheets up and fixing them is not too bad, once we have a or...
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The Surf Shack!: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009. Well - what did this block look like? So glad you asked. It has a 10 degrees slope, it was cleared to some extent at the top and thick with trees surrounded by a deep layer of Karri leaf and bark litter at the bottom. What we did not know at the time of purchase was the extent and length of time it would take to clean the block up and make it as fire safe as possible. For a few months though, it was left to it's own devices until my Mother passed away in March 2008. At the tim...
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This Colonial Life: I was born in..................
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Thursday, June 3, 2010. I was born in. Glasgow, Scotland at 1pm on the 4th of April 1953. Just myself, my mother Amy and the hospital staff in attendance, as my father Jimmy, who was an outstanding amateur golfer, was out on the course apparently. He was a qualified Chartered Accountant who had married Amy, a Registered Nurse, on the 18th of December 1951 in Glasgow's All Saint's Church. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It's never too late to learn the piano! Exploring photography using an iPhone 6.
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This Colonial Life: June 2010
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Thursday, June 3, 2010. Singapore - the early days. So this is how we would have arrived in Singapore and provides a snapshot of the type of life my parents would have enjoyed in the 1950s. Our first residence was a flat at Fife House in Grange Road, which was off Orchard Road, one of the main thoroughfares out of the city. This is the view from the balcony looking up Grange Road and as you can see below, I really was quite young to have travelled so far at such an early age. I was born in. I exclaimed o...
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The Surf Shack!: The Shed
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. An interesting and sustainable aspect of our building project is that it was designed around a 6 X 6.5 metre shed, Michelle had purchased, that resided in the back yard of our architect's home in Albany where we also live. It was very similar to that pictured above but with a wooden frame, steel purlins and Woodland Grey Colorbond. It did not take long to get the shed down and we carefully marked each sheet, frame and purlin to ensure we could get it back together again. Roland mad...
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The Surf Shack!: Michelle's purlins, roof and cladding
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Michelle's purlins, roof and cladding. Michelle had been really fretting about her floor, as it had now been exposed to the elements for more than the recommended 3 months and was starting to show signs of deterioration, so we got stuck into her end as we had the steel 150 X 50 purlins already available to put straight up. We were now we were ready to replace the roofing sheets on to the now almost completely rebuilt shed. This made it a little difficult to get the zincalume sheeti...
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The Surf Shack!: November 2010
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Monday, November 1, 2010. So now it is time to work on the inside of the project and this post will deal with the main wet area which is located in my end between the Kitchen/dining/sitting area and my bedroom. The first job that needs doing is getting the floor tiled and we contract local tiler Alan Bourne. We have decided to clad this area in Villaboard with one length of colorbond as a feature and laminex in the shower area over the Villaboard. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Singapore - the early days.
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The Surf Shack!: May 2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Our first ugly job! Because the building is constructed on posts, we were keen to make sure that the floor was insulated and enhance the protection against fire. So our first job was to attach 27 2400 X 1200 sheets of fibre cement butted together on to the bottom of the joists between the bearers so as we could easily sit insulation batts on top of them before laying on particle board flooring. Bush fire zone building! This involved getting a copy of the Australian Standard AS3959.
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The Surf Shack!: The shed frames
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010. So now we have a beautiful big flat area to rebuild Michelle's frames on. They were constructed quite lightly with a mixture of 35mm X 90mm and 45mm X 90mm timber at 900mm centres. Our specifications called for 45mm X 90mm timber at 450mm centres so there was quite a bit of work for us to do. The 6m end frames used a cathedral design to support the purlins and were split in 3 metre halves so as they were not to heavy to lift into position and then joined together. Michelle and I bu...
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