Week 36 house update

The build is progressing with good speed. But the grass is growing good! All the hard work is paying off now which feels good. Now is it only 400 square meters left. Do some one like to dig and carry stones?

As I said the build is progressing. It is not as spectacular like last week and the week before that. The builders have put on first layer of insulation on the outer side and covered it with wind proof membrane. The roof have got the all the distance and roof tile hangers on place. Also the outer doors are in.

We have also started on the painting. There is ALLOT to paint, luckily for us is the outer panel covered with base coat and first cover coating. But we have to paint the roof overhang three times. It is fairly easy when we have the big scaffolding in place, but still it is allot of work painting in a under up position. We got the base coat on during Saturday and on Sunday came the rain so no painting then. But it will come more days to paint. For this under up painting have we found the perfect tool. I did not know that you could by a paint brush with this long stick, it is 83cm shaft.

Also posts at the carport have been put in to place.

I think this is what have happened this week. It do not look like much, but it is allot of small things that have been done. So let´s see what will happen during this week.

Old hobbies brought to life

As it stated in the banner is this blog is about my various projects/hobbies. A few weeks ago was I on my attic and roamed around and I found my old RC planes. I knew that I had a project that was 20% and I have all the parts for completing the build. Why my interest in RC planes is back again is because our house  location is perfect for flying. Now houses or car-parks close by only grass meadows to land on if/when I crash. The hobby also suits my new family configuration, it is hard to be gone for one or two days which I am when I play with my miniatures. So for now being will I probably spend a few hours building and repairing planes.

Back to the plane it is out of production now but it was produced by SIG. The plane is a semi scale based on a old WW1 war plane the Bristol scout. The prototype for the Bristol Scout was designed in the second half of 1913 by Frank Barnwell and Harry Busteed. For more information see this wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Scout

So I picked it down from the attic and started the build in my cellar. I could see that the time in the attic have made the wings a bit more flat so the flight will be faster and the lift will be less. But I think I can handle that. I have change the stock engine to a more power full brushless setup, this meant that I had to build a new motor mount that took some time to figure out. But after a few sessions was is complete. Now was I only waiting for calm weather.

I maiden it and it behaved nicely. It was much faster than I expected, I bought this plane to replace my old GWS Tiger moth which was a very slow and forgiving plane. I think the speed comes with the more power full engine and the flatter wing profile. The stall was not to bad but I took some time before the I regain  control again. After some landings and slow flybys did it tipstal but I was roughly 1 meter over ground so no big damage done. This flight was my first in 5 years I think so I was not that sharp behind the sticks and in the end did I do a to daring move on to low altitude and did a rough crash.  But with some epoxy was it fixed again.

Because the speed of the plane is not suited for extreme close quarters, I can fly it at the local soccer field but smaller spaces that that is to tight for it.

Yellow lamp for my wife

So me and my wife celebrated our first wedding anniversary this week. I can only say that it is nearly forgotten in between the house build and our new borne son. But my wife made a lovely dinner for the evening and we celebrated with some nice sparkling whine.

No to why I post about this. I believe that we are not like all couples we do not give jewelry or other unnecessary stuff as present because we always have one project going that need some new gizmo. And this wedding anniversary was no exception. So this time I wanted to find some thing that we could fit in to the house and that my wife would like. As the house is about 4x the size we have now and we need allot of furniture and lighting. I started to search for some kind of lamp and I found it big time. First time I saw this beauty and I new directly where to place it. The lamp is a ceiling lamp from By Rydéns who make allot of nice lamps I think there will be more lamps from this company in our house. The lamp is called Charm, it comes in 4 colours and I have chosen the Yellow varaint.

Is in it lovely!

Week 35 house update

This have been an eventful week! There have been big progress on the build site as you will see on the pictures. The week started with the roof the builders hammered down all the out riggers and covered them with tar paper for weather proofing. This took two-three days because it is a big house and the out riggers are not in sheets it is single boards. After that was it time to put in the windows and finish of the with the asfaboard to get it near weather proof condition.

So after one week good progress was it time for "taklags fest" med smörgås-cake and princess-cake in the sun. It feels really good that house frame is up and that it is cowered with the walls and roof. Now can the Autumn storm start if they want to.

The grass lawn seam to be growing the weather have been perfect for it. It has not been to cold or to hot and there have been some lite rain also. But we have to water for precaution because we do not have any rain meter so it is hard to tell how much rain there have been. We are very pleased with the Gardena sprinklers we bought the spread the water nicely. We are also staring get plants for the garden, but we do not dare to plant them because of the builders are in that region. So we have put them as far away as possible. Lets hope that they survive the miss treatment this winter. So thanks every one how have given us the start of our garden.

I also have to mention one lucky strike. On the upper floor we have a bathroom which has on smal window facing north. This was put in to get some natural light but nothing more. But when I looked through the window we have a sea view from the bathroom so it´s position was really good. Picture below is the view from the bathroom.

Next step in the build is to get some more layers of insulation and wind covers before the outer panel is coming on the house. But we can already start painting underneath the roof. So now is it time to get the big brush and big jars of paint. As always will the colour be whit.

House frame is complete

One week has passed and allot have happened at house build. The frame is up and nearly completed except for a few beams in the car-port. Also the roof rafters are on place. So the house will have a hat soon. It feels good to have it weather proof soon before the autumn storms start. It is really fun to walk in the house and you get a good feeling of the spaces and the different rooms. You also see the views from the windows and you can imagine where we will dine and have a lounge area etc.

We have not only been amazed by the speed of the build we have been working at the garden during the weekend and have had VERY nice help from our parents. With out them would there not be any grass sown this weekend. So the hole front side of the house is grass sow I would say that it is about 600-700 square meters off grass. Now is only to wait and see if will grow. After some consideration did we chose Lord Nelson Royal as grass brand. It should suit our garden good because it has a high amount of Festuca rubra variants that is tough grass type.

Next in the build step will be the roofing and then get the windows and doors in so the house is weather proof. It is important to do this as soon a possible because the moister amount in the concrete slab is usually the time stopper in the end. I will try to make weekly reports so you all how are interested can follow the build steps.

It is allways nice to see people work!

House frame build started

Hello All!

Now after the vacations have the build picked up again after 4 weeks of waiting. Before vacation was the concrete slab done and it have cured during the vacation. If you have been following the blog have you seen that we have not been idle we are still making progress on the garden but it is slow. But now when the builders are back and a big pile of wood is deliverd to the build site will it happen things.

The plane is to raise the frame and add cladding with asfaboard to make it weather prof. The house is not a pre-build frame except the roof trusses which are pre-fabricated according to drawings. So there is one big pile of wood that will become the frame and the structure for the second floor. This will take roughly 2-3 weeks to finish. This will be the first time when we see the size  and height of the house. So it is exciting time ahead!

During the vacation have we also added a new member to the family so my wife well be the new build leader because she will be home with the little boy and can oversee the build. It will be a bit hard to let the control go but I have full confidence in here ability to make this good.

My plan is to keep you informed as the build progress and what problems we bump in to during the way, so keep tuned because now will the build pace speed up significantly.

The concrete is poured.

As usual am I sorry for the delay on blog post´s but there have been one small change in the family that have been taking much of my time lately. Roughly two weeks ago did my first child a well shaped son arrive in two the world. You think that one more man  would be good for the work force. But it feels like we are one man less working at the site :)

But build site have not been idle because of my family business. The concrete slab is poured and have been hardening for 3 weeks now. It looks promising but the house feels small. But I think it will change when the walls are there.

Currently are the builders on summer vacation and  will start working in the beginning of august again. The plan is to get the walls and roof on in a few weeks then will the windows arrive. During the summer vacation are we starting the the garden. The plan is to sow the grass lawn in end of august so we can get a head start on the weeds. But before we can do that do we need to break up the hard crust from the excavator. This is hard work because of all the rooks in the ground. But I do not need any gym card after this and it is also nice when you get a helping hand.

There will be more updates when they will start build again, so until then have a nice summer and let the sun always shine on your side. Last picture of the they, what do you do when there is no shade for your caravan. Build your own camping site!