9 - 11 April 2018
Now the main job of the year continues. We have the whole of the underneath of the roof and the mezzanine to frame out, install insulation and panel. We completed the bedroom as our test site and experimental area in the winter, and established our preferred techniques and finishes. Then the project was put on hold for the electrics and plumbing and visiting, but now we continue.
We picked an easy starting place, cleared the area, and began.
Two days later, we had this result. The boards at the back, completing the top of the wall, had to be made, and as the gap between rafters went through into the music room, it was most efficient to make them double-sided - a tricky little job that Dave achieved expertly.
Then we fitted batons all round the space between rafters, these had to be cut into acute angles where the cross-bracing attaches: measure, check, trim, drill, sand, paint twice. The insulation is fitted. Then the panels can be painted and fitted. All of it working off ladders and steps, and working round any electrics.
The result is very nice, if tediously slow to achieve. There's so much more to do. Still, one step at a time ...
Now the main job of the year continues. We have the whole of the underneath of the roof and the mezzanine to frame out, install insulation and panel. We completed the bedroom as our test site and experimental area in the winter, and established our preferred techniques and finishes. Then the project was put on hold for the electrics and plumbing and visiting, but now we continue.
We picked an easy starting place, cleared the area, and began.
Two days later, we had this result. The boards at the back, completing the top of the wall, had to be made, and as the gap between rafters went through into the music room, it was most efficient to make them double-sided - a tricky little job that Dave achieved expertly.
Then we fitted batons all round the space between rafters, these had to be cut into acute angles where the cross-bracing attaches: measure, check, trim, drill, sand, paint twice. The insulation is fitted. Then the panels can be painted and fitted. All of it working off ladders and steps, and working round any electrics.
The result is very nice, if tediously slow to achieve. There's so much more to do. Still, one step at a time ...
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