11 May 2014

We were out some time, so it was not a full week's progress.

We had a nice sunny week. That dictated that we do the door frame rather than glazing the doors. It made working outside a lot easier. I assembled the frame out on the deck. Elna happened to be out, so I decided to take the risk of lifting the frame upright by myself. I just managed. Shortly thereafter Elna came back. It took a lot of time to set the frame vertical and level. Eventually we had it all right. Then came the tricky part, to screw it on to the outside framing. That also took a lot of time, making spacers as we went along..

We also removed the jack post holding the lintel between the lounge and dining room, because at the time I used an old post and was not happy with the standard. We fitted a new post there and bolted it onto the outer frame.

Then came the surprise! The building is not true vertical any more, and we have to get the Gib board to fit around the door frame, but also to the house framing, and there were variations of over 10 mm. In the end we decided to use the door frame as reference, and made packers to fit onto the studs. Some turned out to be 1400 mm long, and taper down from 10 mm to 0 mm It was still sunny on Saturday and off I went to buy the Gib. The longest sheet being 3.6 m. That implies that we will need assistance from some friend(s) to put it up. With a ceiling height of 3.4 m, I am not going to take any chances.

We have also decided to fit the doors without glass, to make handling easier, then remove them and glaze them.

Sorry, no pictures this week.