Category Archives: Warmboard

Preamble: In the times between waiting for the box gutter to be manufactured, and the roof iron to be cut and delivered, the last few weeks have been spent fine tuning, straightening, bracing, aligning, forming around the protruding steel and inserting trimmers in the internal … Continue reading →

Monday 11th July The riggers came out on Monday to finish what they had started last week, completing the job by the middle of Wednesday. Now the build looks like a major industrial project suited to somewhere other than here. Embarrassing. The week … Continue reading →

  Construction Picks up: Monday 27th June. Ash arrives early Monday morning to help the crew, so we will now have four builders onsite when Nino arrives later this morning. The other two, Jared and Toby, are already onsite and … Continue reading →

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 →