Last weekend saw us painstakingly measure and cut a whole bunch of framing timber to set up the base for our new cladding. Each James Harding Axon cladding sheet is a standard 1200mm wide, with varying lengths - 2450, 2750 & 3000mm. We attached 70mm treated pine lengths at 600mm intervals, with additional posts to support the cladding around the windows and tricky spots like the powerbox and NBN.
It sounds like a lot of fun, right? If you are me, then this is actually your idea of a good time. There are so few things in life that I can claim to be better at than Tim. If the 3 wrong cuts he made when I left him alone for 5 minutes is anything to go by, I definitely kick his ass at measuring. Oh, and I thoroughly enjoy reminding him of that every 10 minutes.
Enough boasting, let's get into the pics!
First step was to wire wheel off the STUPIDFU....sorry.....the leftover silicone on the fascia of the sunroom/deck.
Good job Tim
Then we moved on to framing the house. We started with the side of the garage as we had zilch experience with this product and would need to learn as we went (thank god for youtube).
This bit went unsurprisingly slow however we found ourselves getting into a rhythm as we continued.
oh hey there sexy framing
Once we finished the side of the garage, we stapled on the insulation roll-stuff.
It was time to tackle the weird indent at the front. Tim decided that it would look much cleaner to bump out above the garage door to keep it flush with the brick columns on either side. We accomplished this by building what I affectionately call "the ladder". Then we enlisted the help of 3 of our awesome friends (& staff - because why have work staff if you can't rope them into helping with your home renos??) to lift and hold the ladder device while tim secured it to the garage wall.
The front deck is a combination of the original deck that came with the house, and a merbau extension that Tim added a few months ago (another blog post that never happened). We removed the decking plank closest to the front wall of the house to run the cladding behind for a clean look. Bricks under each window were removed with an angle grinder and lots of effort (Tim's, I just watched and said helpful things behind my mask like "eww, it's dusty" and "is it time to sit down yet?")
It was time to tackle the weird indent at the front. Tim decided that it would look much cleaner to bump out above the garage door to keep it flush with the brick columns on either side. We accomplished this by building what I affectionately call "the ladder". Then we enlisted the help of 3 of our awesome friends (& staff - because why have work staff if you can't rope them into helping with your home renos??) to lift and hold the ladder device while tim secured it to the garage wall.
Ignore the sad looking plants
The front deck is a combination of the original deck that came with the house, and a merbau extension that Tim added a few months ago (another blog post that never happened). We removed the decking plank closest to the front wall of the house to run the cladding behind for a clean look. Bricks under each window were removed with an angle grinder and lots of effort (Tim's, I just watched and said helpful things behind my mask like "eww, it's dusty" and "is it time to sit down yet?")
Tim's little deck
So there you have it. A weekend full of work and help from wonderful friends.
Hot tip - stay tuned for the next post in which I again let Tim and his bro Michael measure things unsupervised and an above stated plan may be forced to change.
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