With the stove complete and the chimney positioned, I was finally able to make the roof penetration for the chimney and complete the roof! The first thing to do was to figure out the shape of the hole. This video answered that question: So with a template in hand … I drilled through the center […]
Summer Kitchen Renovation Part16: The Chimney Read More »
From the beginning of this project, Iulia and I have had differences of opinion about a stove. You can say that the stove and these differences of opinion it represents is at the heart of this project. Because of those differences of opinion, the stove is late to the party. As a result, its placing
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We have arrived at a kind of convergence of interdependencies & the end of the working season: To continue working on filling the walls we needed to get some electricity preparations done. A late decision to put in a masonry stove got entagled with the roof (since a chimney is required and penetrates the roof.
Summer Kitchen Renovation Part14: Electricity, Roof … and Water! Read More »
I enjoyed this, a sweet home-ly mastery. It opens up (in my mind) interesting creative possibilities.
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The next step was an un-news-worthy disassembling, moving, and reassembling of the scaffolding. However this time the scaffolding was a tight fit because of some obstacles, including an ash tree. We’ve been aware of this ash tree from back when we took down the old roof and started walking and working on the walls. We
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After the scaffolding was up I could approach the fascia boards. I had to get used to being up on the scaffolding and moving around with the safety gear, between parts of the scaffolding and the mulberry tree branches (I trimmed some that were too much in the way and felt unsafe to me …
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We left off last time with a framed roof and our sights were now on the roof itself. Before going there we decided to lightly frame in the two sidewalls (to give the structure a bit more rigidity). So we started with yet another evening charring preparing the next pieces we needed. I am amazed
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This segment of the story starts with an innocent-looking picture – a first test assembly of the homemade scaffolding … it felt sturdy but did not feel good for testing given the uneven ground next to the workshop: Assuming the scaffolding was going to work … the next challenge was to get a ridge-beam (“technical”
Summer Kitchen Renovation Part10: Going Out on Two limbs (aka: Roof Framing) Read More »
After charring, brushing and light sanding it was time to oil the beams: Then … getting them up in the roof. Fortunately, they were now lighter then they were when we received them green … making them slightly more manageable! We were able to hoist one side of the beam up to one side of
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With formwork in place we put in rebar and then had to wait for the weather to clear up and for a delivery of stones (for the concrete mix) for a concrete pouring day. While waiting for the weather I completed work in the workshop on the window frames. Here are two large frames awaiting
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The hole in the wall window (we left off with last time) healed fairly quickly: Once we put in a properly dimensions and straight frame in we learned how un-straight the wall is. As a result the frame sticks out and will require some “integration work” … to be dealt with in the future. With
Summer Kitchen Renovation Part7: Preparing for going UP! Read More »