Peter and Natasha

1. Singing and
(Comments)

... know you've the time and inclination for singing and dancing! It is great to see that the battle of the joists is close to being won. It is a fascinating journey and one which we are so happy to be...

2. Goodbye yellow tongue
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...round the time of the bushfires that wrought havoc and misery on the state and winds that blew me off the joists and damaged my knee, we were laying down the yellow tongue flooring. That has been the ...

3. Deck done
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...ed to take a moment. It is instantly satisfying and walking out the south door on to something other than joists and a metre plus drop is surreal. Sure, it has no steps up to it yet but a step ladder ...

4. Front and south
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...e relationship between the deck and the render: the rendering is hard to do at that height until the deck joists are on, plus the render needs to go both above the joists to the eaves and below the jo...

5. A big list and a special visit
(Blog/Living and Finishing)

...uctive but that will ultimately lengthen the lifespan of the windows and prevent any damage to the floor, joists and bearers. It involves packing the windows up off the floor, which I had fa...

6. Hot days on the deck
(Blog/Lock up and inspection)

...d sleep lately taking care of Dylan and I dreamt that I was trying to work out how to use nappies as deck joists. Somehow it just wasn't working for me.  ...

7. Nesting
(Blog/Walls and Render)

...insulation, sizalation, battens and calico) * Install windows (early next week, woohooo!) * Get deck joists done and get our North decking on (with steps etc) * Install kitchen, shower, laund...

8. Specifications of the house
(Straw Bale House/Straw Bale House)

...h The land: * Soil classification - H (highly reactive clay) Stumps to sub-floor: * Joists and Bearers - 140x45  (but we accidentally did joists at 190x45) * Sub-floor - y...

9. Building with Beethoven
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...med to check out. Mind you, when I started marking it for planing it didn't seem so easy.  The joists weren't always located in the spots where the 0, 10, 20 and 30 markings were to go. &nb...

10. More floor
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...g to size where necessary and it's generally necessary with the wacky shape of our house, making sure the joists are level and packing it up or planing it down if it needs it, laying down the glue on ...

11. Hard to comprehend
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... the insulation installation situation and helping move the sheets into place while I've been glueing the joists, cutting the sheets to size where necessary, clamping the sheets into place with floor ...

12. Ouch
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... as I had forgotten to arrange to get this.  It was fantastic to stack the flooring sheets up on the joists when they arrived and just looking at it I knew that getting around on the build was ab...

13. Tradesman tan
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ination. By the end of the day I had the final nogging in place and have started to trim the ends of the joists to be uniform for when the flooring goes on. Next I have to plane the tops of the...

14. Tom and Captain Najork
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ich Tom, the hero, does a lot of fooling around and teetering in high places.  Walking around on the joists has felt decidedly teetery, and at times I have been bathed in teeterescence.  Thi...

15. Nog Blog
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...e land today the breeze was our saviour, and it only got to 30. We put on about 45 noggins today, and the joists are feeling much more secure and safer to walk around on. I've missed being at the land...

16. Joist about there
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

... and that will be the story of the week as the heat remains.  It was a good day and there now only 2 joists to cut and fit.  These ones are around the position of our compostable toilet and ...

17. Sun shiny day
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...r, but always the wind to cool us down. Not one cloud did we see today. We've had a ball - we attached 29 joists today, and have only 15 to go. We do love just hanging out together - this afternoon we...

18. Tumbleweed
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...Fortunately when I opened my eyes the house was still there.   Despite all this I still got 16 joists on which is great considering the conditions.  Packing up was hard, especially ty...

19. Funny Angle
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

We have many funny angles in our house but right now it's my neck that has a funny angle.  I did something to it that got worse until it was hard to get out of bed on Monday.  As a resul

20. Joist a minute
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...suring and planning is working towards a better overall result.  So when it came time to put on the joists, everything was measured and marked and we nailed them fast!  We did 13 joists to...

21. Reality Check
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...ame time it is great to see the shape and size of the rooms of the house now, as we attach the joists which show the outline of the walls - where we will be laying down the straw bales. S...

22. Learning the hard way
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...that we will make mistakes. Self-forgiveness is a must! On the up-side, we have started to get some joists on, and it is very exciting to start to see things taking shape. We have had such bea...

23. Measuring Stump Heights
(Blog/Stumps and Bearers)

...up visually.   More bearers over the next week and I'll see if it's feasible to get into some joists before Christmas and a wee break. ...