Giles and Paula Add a Room Onto the Side of The House

[Giles]

@Madame Buttonfly and I got the disc cutter and the sledgehammer out yesterday, made a larger hole in the garden wall….There's an arch and a gate going on there.....

[Giles]

Brain exploding…...Working out stairs....

[neph93]

Have you tried using an online calculator? They pretty good as long as you aren't doing anything particularly complex.

[Matty123]

All this construction talk is gonna make Reuben explode…. heh

[neph93]

Reuben is snowed under with so much essay  grading that his brain is melting out of ears anyway. An explosion would be welcome at this point…

[Matty123]

Shaping young minds. Gammel ørn

[Giles]

@neph93:

Have you tried using an online calculator? They pretty good as long as you aren't doing anything particularly complex.

Yes, but there are some constraints that I make sure I cater for.  Obviously, total drop is important, but I  also need to build a stud wall at exactly the right place to meet the bottom riser.  I know it's not rocket science, but I want to be 100% certain before we start cutting….

EDIT - Found another that is perfect for what I need - thanks

[Giles]

Scaffold down.  Need to give the bricks a good old fashioned jet wash now.

And Les and I are now dry-lining….

[neph93]

@Giles:

I know it's not rocket science…

Given my maths skills it might as well be.

EDIT: and that brick work is sublime.

[Giles]

Thank you Reuben.  I love it too…..

[Giles]

Stairs sorted…... Thank @neph93

[neph93]

Excellent! Glad to be of service. Any chance of a closer look at the roof masonry visible on top of the brick facade in the first pic? Looks tasty.

[Chris]

Progress is coming along nicely.

[ROman]

I think it looks GREAT….

[RoxRocks86]

Definitely enjoy seeing the progress

[Giles]

@neph93 The coping stones?

[neph93]

@Giles:

@neph93 The coping stones?

Indeed, the coping stones. My befuddled, timber orientated, bilingual head wouldn’t find the correct name yesterday evening.

[Giles]

The lantern is one of the things I have been excited about ever since we had the idea.  Love it….

[Giles]

I've decided to slow things down a bit.  Things are going really well, but I made a cock up with my floor height calcs. so I need to add some more screed else finished floor level will be below DPC.  I don't think it will make a blind bit of difference to the functionality of the building, but it's outside of building regs.  It'll never be noticed, but I may as well do it right.  I need to wait for the current screed to dry naturally (about another 30 days) or put the underfloor heating on to accelerate the drying time.  But that means I have to screw up our current kitchen earlier than I wanted too, so on balance, a slow down is more sensible.

[organisys]

There might be a risk the underfloor heating could dry the screed too quickly?….cracking??