Category Archives: Warmboard Australia

Anticipation Grows: Monday 20th June 2016 Extra builders are due on-site next  week to put the timber LVL  roof rafters up. So begins an all out effort by Nino and his amateur help, to ensure that there is an outside wall, and … Continue reading →

Wall Framing Begins: Monday 13th June 2016 I have asked Peter Taylor, our Warmboard supplier, to give us a schematic with all the hardware we were supplied with in situ, as we don’t have a recognized hydronics expert on hand … Continue reading →

Warmboard install continues: Monday June 6th 2016 Monday, and the weather descends upon us. I imagine it’s probably the worst type of weather for warmboard installation (and the installers). However the board was uncovered last Thursday (it had been under a … Continue reading →

The Warmboard continues: Friday June 3rd 2016 With a long weekend looming we carried on installing today until Nino left to drive a couple of hours back to his place in Katanning. Rain forecast for Monday so we will see how everything holds … Continue reading →

Subfloor: Mon June 1 2016 The time has come to start laying down our subfloor. Obviously this will consists of not only the Warmboard but the 28mm construction grade ply  we sourced from the other side of the country to … Continue reading →

Joists and More As we finish installing the remaining bearers and accompanying joists over the “Secret Men’s Business “room, the curved template arrives from Brad. It was actually three templates, all about 2m in length which we could tape together to … Continue reading →

 Extra Steel Needed: Problem beam Tuesday May 10 2016: While constructing the framework for the floor, Nino had been worrying about the lack of steel for support over the top of “The Secret Men’s Business” on the bottom floor. Also, he … Continue reading →

Timber work begins Nino (builder) arrived last week and oversaw the ground floor “Secret Men’s Business ” concrete pour. Monday 25 April 2016: The strapped bundles of bearers were found then cut to length, positioned and bolted onto the steel footplates … Continue reading →