Popular Post yoeddynz Posted October 26, 2020 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2020 More progress. We have been delving into the large pile of rimu timber that was left on the land as part of the purchase. Most of it is good enough to use but there are bora holes in a fair bit. We are planing it down and then lobbing the swiss cheese bits into the firewood pile (it splits so perfectly for great kindling) Found this bit of random timber that I'm not sure what it is. It might be walnut? Or oak? its lovely and will be used as a feature piece either in this build or the next housetruck.. Its neat when you open the door- the workshop smells so strongly of just wood (not oily leaking British cars) and its currently looking like a carpentry workshop.. All lovely except for the dust that gets everywhere. I where a mask for pretty much all machine work- the dust can be so fine. I have heard that rimu dust can be quite harmful too? Back into the building. We finished the lounge room floor... Added a wall with a window rescued from that cabin and a rimu frame I made to suit... We are now building a wall along the side. I have a funky idea for one of the walls I'm quite excited about. We will finish a bit more wall and then move the remaining boxes of car bits etc off the workshop floor up stairs so we can make the storage floor that goes across the back- similar to this lounge floor but just one sheet wide. Birds. Mr Chaffy certainly does have a girlfriend. Mrs Chaffy is becoming tamer now and they both feed together on porridge in the morning. She aint (yet) quite so fat... A few mornings ago we had a Heron roosting up in a tall kanuka. I grabbed the big camera but only got one terrible photo before it spotted me , went all shy and flew away... There's a group of them nesting over in the pine trees opposite the truck across the field. I might try for photos but they are up really high. Snapped a pic of the two Keas flying overhead, still hanging about each evening... I really want to get better photos but without attracting their attention because they do love a fuss and we don't want them closer. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Acacia melanoxylon aka blackwood 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted October 26, 2020 Author Share Posted October 26, 2020 Ahhh ok. Yeah i see that now. So it is very similar to walnut. Previous land owner might have had found and dropped a tree here - there's a few different immigrants about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Rimu dust.... Gives me terrible throat/eye irritation in small doses, mask is compulsory, partially why completion of our kitchen is dragging on! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sambo Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Rimu dust is pretty toxic. It's noted for being particularly carcinogenic 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 yay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 It can really ream you. 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted October 27, 2020 Author Share Posted October 27, 2020 Woo hoo. It gets better. Sleep easy tonight little alex... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTeeNZ Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Hey, I mostly just read here and not much of a posterino, but I saw this thread 2 days ago, just got done reading, holy fark, thats some killer work ya'll have done! love it! 11/10 have enjoyed reading. Big pats for Kev too, he looks like a supremely chill fluffball. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted October 31, 2020 Author Share Posted October 31, 2020 Cool- thanks mr deetee- glad you enjoyed the read. Its fun for me to post it up (its like a nice diary I can go back to) There will be heaps more happening over the next few months that's for sure 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted March 25, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 25, 2021 Crikey its been a while since I updated this thread. Quite a bit has been built since the last update, in between customers jobs, mucking about buying old Bedfords, playing with bicycle builds and general enjoying summer stuff. Now that its 'late summer' here in the Tasman region and its starting to get a little bit chillier in the evenings we have been cracking into the build so we can hopefully move out of the cabin before spring Autumn arrives. Our bay seems to have a bit of a micro climate and ignores winter here, going straight from autumn to spring and frankly its more nicerer that way I still want to be living in the shed though- its gonna be nicer all round and I might actually then do more work on the Imp 911! So last time I posted we had sort of started the building of some walls upstairs. We got sick of the mess and clutter downstairs and once we had the wall up in the lounge we carted all the boxes of car/bike/workshop related stuff upstairs and stacked them in the lounge. Then we took down the old shelves that all that stuff had been on. Moved the washing machine, folder, guillotine out of the way, put more burly posts up and built the store room. I didn't really take any photos of the process but you can see it in this photo... Its about 1.6m wide and spans half the workshop. Really good amount of space to store lots of boxes on some shelves we built up there. With all the stuff shifted up off the workshop floor we could now make the most of the extra space. We shuffled things around, measured, schemed, planned, deliberated and pondered the layout. Still wanted some shelves but not as big. We ended up with it looking like this... Much better. Really happy with that. Those shelves will soon get cluttered up with a variety of Nissan micra bits as we do that planned swapsies game. Now back to work upstairs. Speaking of stairs...we got sick of clambering up and down from the lounge area using a step stool so we made these... I built them to replicate the main stairway. We picked through the largest bits of pine we had and created some sweet steps. Really stoked with how they came up once varnished. There will be a handrail on the wall side to add in the future. We bought some things. We've never had a new mattress. Time to splash out and get a decent one... (another reason for wanting to shift outta the cabin asap- the cabin only has a double bed and it gets crampped when we have to share it with a big fluffy cat) Also started hunting for chest of drawers etc. Found these slightly art deco styled ones cheap at the recycling centre - $40. Nicely built from solid Rimu. Hannah sanded them and varnished them... We kept plodding away at the build. Annoying when we had to stop to do customers jobs but hey that's life. Walls and ceilings went up. Some free insulation from local friends. Hannah painted some of the walls. Yet to decide on other colours to be used. Bought a nice second hand full HD projector and a new 130" motorised screen. We had deliberated about going the projector route or just get a large telly. Projector won and its amazing! Installed the lovely large 'fill the room with deep smooth base' speakers we had been gifted. Made some burly speaker stands that replicate the posts holding the mezz up. Screwed them to the floor because earthquakes.. but also make sure nothing moves but the speaker cones. Gawddamn its a mighty nice setup to watch movies in now- exactly what I have dreamed about. When I spot a 65" etc TV in the shops now they seem so tiny. Viewing a movie on a projector screen also seems much easier on my eyes than looking at a telly screen. I added more circuits to the breaker box and ran out all the wiring before the walls went up. Always so fun to turn new lights on and have wall sockets to use rather then trailing extension cords. I have a local sparky mate who will be checking/signing it off etc when finished. Get all our bits at trade from him too- LOL at the markup on electrical stuff !!! Pics... Spot the vent added in the top- without windows it was a bit hot up there. Vent works well! Need to make a pretty porthole window to cover it. Some nice carpet will be laid on the lounge floor (oatmeal/Kevin coloured - bloody fluffy cats....) I had posted up some pics in the shed thread of this happening a few days ago... Wow- I wish we had done that earlier on. We've had a window to fit in this spot for ages... My brother had spotted it at the Blenheim recycling centre. $50!!! All cedar sashes and lovely Rimu frame, solid brass mechanisms. Couldn't believe our luck. Hannah cleaned it up and painted the outside in dark 'Karaka' green to match the other windows/doors on the shed. Here in primer... We needed flashings. I didn't want to deal with the main Nelson crowd that we'd used and been mucked about with before. We had a load of brand new gutters that had been left in the bush by the previous land owner, still in the plastic wrap and in the exact same Karaka green we needed. So I decided to use them as material to make our own flashings. We needed a folder. So I built one... It folds 2.4 metres. No good for heavy steel but fine for shed steel, car steel. It will be a handy thing to have for future jobs so it made sense to but a little time/money into making one. It fits neatly onto a large mobile steel bench. Made flashings and fitted windows. Then had coffee looking out into the bush... We will be chopping down heaps of the Kanuka trees we now look at- the block the evening sun that comes through the window and there lots of really nice ferns that we'd rather see come up. So that's firewood sorted for another few years In the last few days we've been adding trim, making another bookshelf to mimic the one we'd made earlier on the other side of the lounge. Wanted some nice timber and found a large plank of what we thought to be old pine. Turns out it was Macrocarpa so that was a nice surprise... Finished that book shelf last night and Hannah varnished it this morning... We uncovered the remaining Rimu stacked outside and brought it up to the shed to process... Quite a large amount left. Most of it cleaned up nice... Now we are machining it down to a variety of shapes for trim, skirting boards, corner cappings, railings. We really need to make the bannisters before someone falls 2.4 metres to the concrete floor below. Wow. Wall of text. I'll try to post up more often so its not such a mission to write/read. Really looking forward to fitting the kitchen/bedroom windows soon and then start building the respective rooms. Then we can move in. Then I can tinker with flat sixes till late and know my bed is only a flight of stairs away - not a cold walk up to a cabin. Alex 38 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickJ Posted March 25, 2021 Share Posted March 25, 2021 23 minutes ago, yoeddynz said: Holy crap dejavu! This is 100% how I pictured the theatre when yourself and Hannah were detailing the plan with us over coffee two years ago, I can only imagine how cool it is for you guys to see it come together! PS, Please hurry up, need more imp 911 updates. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vk304 Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 This is awesome thanks for documenting it, a dream of mine and my wife's to do something like this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 No probs- glad you've enjoyed my ramblings 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted April 8, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 8, 2021 WINDOWS UPDATE Yep- more windows. Yay for more light and some extra views. But before that happened we made the mezzanine a safer place to be by finally making some bannisters and removing the chance of plummeting 2.4 metres onto very hard concrete (or worse- a rusty car?). I had a particular style in mind from the very beginning of the build to tie in with the minimalist steel/wood thing going on. Started like this. We made a variety of steel uprights to suit... Ripped down a selection of nice Rimu timber, planed it, sanded it... Bolted up in place and we instantly felt safer... Next up was the stairway. Really didn't want to add too much here because I'm trying to keep it looking really clean and simple. But had to have something- especially for those nights when local friends are here and our brains are a bit addled... It was super fun going through the Rimu timber selection and picking out bits with nice grain to make rails from. Then the lower hand rail that had to be curved quite a lot to follow the stairs. Ripped down some 5mm thin strips of Rimu and laminated them, clamped to a jig welded in place on the big steel bench... Woke up the next morning and had a very strong curved rail to plane and sand down... Then mounted in place and given a lick of varnish... Really happy with it! We have decided against adding any extra steel work for now- its a nice strong rail that doesn't clutter up the stairway. Next thing was some more windows. One for the kitchen and one for the bedroom. These we chose from a pile of second hand windows from the local aluminium window place and they made new frames to suit our shed walls. Cheap way to do it. Cut a hole... New view... Stoked! Its really going to make the kitchen a nice light place to be (for when I make my super fine selection of cheese on toast creations... yep, I'm a bit of a chef like that..) View this evening looking down the space with new windows fitted... Here's a look at how the lounge is now set up. Scored some bloody nice Italian leather sofas cheap from a fella in Nelson. Totally the simple clean style (in elastoplast beige to boot) that we wanted. Wont be going back to cloth sofas when we own a very fluffy white cat. The sofas fit beside each other so you can sit 5 across in real comfort for movie nights (more can sit on bean bags etc in front). The sofas are light enough to very easily shift downstairs into the studio area if need be too. There will be some super plush carpet added in the lounge (oatmeal in colour because ginger/white cat...) and a couple of floor standing reading lights etc but otherwise keep it simple. More soon. Looking forward to the kitchen/bedroom build next.. its so fun! 33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Do you want a copy of the code lolol Edit; I forgot to say it looks pretty sweet too... 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rot808 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Looks bloody amazing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted April 8, 2021 Author Share Posted April 8, 2021 Cheers! Its super fun building it, especially now all the tricky bits are done. Didn't really fancy dropping any of those windows as we placed them from the inside, reaching out awkwardly. Just so looking forward to moving in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumrum Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 well Skinner you steam a good ham 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yoeddynz Posted April 16, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 16, 2021 Had a design in mind for the wall up to the lounge from very early on. Was gonna take a bit of time but I thought it would be well worth it. Cut and planed lots of batons from Rimu off cuts Its not a techy thing. They went up along the wall and are spaced just so that as you enter from what will be a hallway it sort of looks like a solid wood wall. Then as you walk in and past you can see the orange paint through the gaps... Neato. Much neater. I like the effect. But I also had this planned... and all the colours in between Today we went to the big smoke (Nelson..) and met up with @CPR Sierra who gifted us loads more leftover timber plus loads of insulation from a house build. Top fella- thanks so much Morris! This is just what we need to now continue on with the kitchen smoko room and bedroom sickbay build. 27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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